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- Healthcare associated infections (HAIs) are common and hard to manage, but many can be prevented through good Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) practices.
- A study evaluated IPC practices in 32 Indian hospitals using the WHO’s self-assessment tool, revealing varying levels of IPC implementation: 13% had basic practices, 28% had intermediate, and 59% had advanced practices.
- The findings highlight the need for quality improvement training for IPC nurses and healthcare professionals to enhance infection control efforts in these facilities.
Article Abstract
Background: Healthcare associated infections (HAIs) are prevalent and difficult to treat worldwide. Most HAIs can be prevented by effective implementation of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) measures. A survey was conducted to assess the existing IPC practices across a network of Indian Hospitals using the World Health Organization designed self-assessment IPC Assessment Framework (IPCAF) tool.
Methods: This was a cross sectional observation study. Thirty-two tertiary care public and private facilities, part of the existing Indian HAI surveillance network was included. Data collected was analyzed by a central team at All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, a tertiary care hospital of India. The WHO questionnaire tool was used to understand the capacity and efforts to implement IPC practices across the network.
Results: The overall median score of IPCAF across the network was 620. Based on the final IPCAF score of the facilities; 13% hospitals had basic IPC practices, 28% hospitals had intermediate and 59% hospitals had advanced IPC practices. The component multimodal strategies had the broadest range of score while the component IPC guidelines had the narrowest one.
Conclusions: Quality improvement training for IPC nurses and healthcare professionals are needed to be provided to health facilities.
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