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Northern Health Library: Standard 3: Preventing and Controlling Healthcare-Associated Infection


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Fact Sheets

Both Northern Health and the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Healthcare have produced short fact sheets which provide a summary of the standard. 

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Standard 3: Preventing and Controlling Healthcare-Associated Infection

This standard aims to improve infection prevention and control measures to help prevent infections and the spread of antimicrobial resistance through the appropriate prescribing and use of antimicrobials.

Healthcare-associated infections complicate patient recovery and increase healthcare costs by increasing the length of hospital stays, and the treatment and care required. In addition, there is the increasing problem of organisms that are resistant to current antimicrobial treatments.

Recommended Articles

Ejaredar, M., Ruzycki, S.M., Glazer, T.S., Trudeau, P., Jim, B., Nelson, G., Cameron, A. (2024) Implementation of a surgical site infection prevention bundle in gynecologic oncology patients: An enhanced recovery after surgery initiative. Gynecologic Oncology,185, pg.173-179.

Hyeon, Y.H., Moon, K.J. Development of an infection control competency scale for clinical nurses: an instrument design study. BMC Nurs 23, 250 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12912-024-01904-1

Murray-Ramcharan M, Feltes Escurra M, Engdahl R, et al. (March 22, 2024) Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy for the Management of Complex Surgical Wounds in a Minority Population. Cureus 16(3): e56726. doi:10.7759/cureus.56726 

Sturm, L.K., Jacobs, T.R., Fakih, M.G. (2024). Ten pillars for the expansion of health system infection prevention capacity. Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology. 

Ülgüt, R., Tomsic, I., Chaberny, I.F., von Lengerke, T (2024) Human resource management to assist infection prevention and control professionals: A scoping review. Journal of Hospital Infection. doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2024.04.004.