Multi-modal Strategies Enhance Environmental Cleaning , Prevent HAIs
By Kelly M . Pyrek
Researchers in Australia say that the key to successfully reducing the risk of healthcare-associated infections that can be attributed to the healthcare environment is to design and implement multi-modal interventions that are part of a meaningful and sustainable environmental hygiene program .
Because infection transmission is multi-faceted and “ involves the complex interplay between a pathogen , a host and their environment ( including humans ),” Browne and Mitchell ( 2023 ) emphasize that strategies to prevent pathogen carriage on hands , fomites and surfaces must consider important contextual factors that are likely to play a role in the effectiveness
Bundling interventions is nothing of infection prevention strategies , including organizational
new ; from hand hygiene to culture , governance , support , resources , capacity for risk , as well vascular access , patients have as motivation and ability to change . benefitted from their caregivers Bundling interventions is nothing new ; from hand hygiene to using multimodal approaches to vascular access , patients have benefitted from their caregivers using multi-modal approaches to standardizing clinical tasks to standardizing clinical tasks to ensure improved outcomes . Bundles can be superior to singular ensure improved outcomes .” interventions , for two reasons , according to professor Brett Mitchell , FACN , FACIPC , CIPC-E , PhD , M . Adv . Prac , DTN , BN ,
C . Teach , of Avondale University In New South Wales , Australia .
“ Trying to find meaningful and statistically significant differences in interventions and infection control research is challenging because , ultimately , healthcare-associated infections are a relatively rare event ,” Mitchell says . “ When you ’ re talking about
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