The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America [SHEA] and the Infectious Diseases Society of America [IDSA] have updated a series of recommendations on how to prevent various healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals. Its earlier compendium of guidelines published in 2008 focused on detection and prevention, while these new recommendations highlight practical preventive strategies.
SHEA and IDSA partnered with the American Hospital Association, Association for Professionals in Infection Control, and Joint Commission in developing the strategies, while a number of other organizations have endorsed or supported the recommendations as well.
Updated preventive strategies have been published so far for these types of HAIs:
- Catheter-associated urinary tract infections [CAUTIs]
- Surgical site infections
- Clostridium difficile infections
Additional updates will be published in July and August, completing a revision of the Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals. A new section on hand hygiene as a preventive strategy will be added, and upcoming guidelines for these HAIs will be included:
- Central line-associated bloodstream infections
- Ventilator-associated pneumonia
- Transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Sources:
Compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, accessed May 9, 2014 at http://www.shea-online.org/PriorityTopics/CompendiumofStrategiestoPreventHAIs.aspx
Yokoe DS and others. SHEA/IDSA practice recommendation: Introduction to “A compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associated infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 update. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 35(5):455-459, May 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/675819
Lo E and others. SHEA/IDSA practice recommendation: Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 update. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 35(5):464-479, May 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/675718
Safdar N and others. SHEA white paper: The evolving landscape of healthcare-associated infections: recent advances in prevention and a road map for research. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 35(5):480-493, May 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/675821
Anderson DJ and others. SHEA/IDSA practice recommendation: Strategies to prevent surgical site infections: 2014 update. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 35(6):605-627, June 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/676022
Dubberke ER and others. SHEA/IDSA practice recommendation: Strategies to prevent Clostridium difficile infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 update. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 35(6):628-645, June 2014. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/676023
Yokoe DS and others. SHEA/IDSA practice recommendations: Compendium of strategies to prevent healthcare-associataed infections in acute care hospitals. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 29(supplement 1): S1-S92, Oct. 2008. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/593984
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