Strategies to fully implement infection control practices in Pennsylvania ambulatory surgical facilities
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Pennsylvania patient safety advisory
- Author(s):
- Bradley, Sharon, author
- Contributor(s):
- Pennsylvania. Patient Safety Authority, issuing body. Institute for Safe Medication Practices, issuing body. ECRI (Organization), issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Harrisburg, Pa.] : Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority, [2013]
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Cross Infection -- prevention & control Infection control Surgicenters -- standards Ambulatory Surgical Procedures -- standards Cross Infection -- epidemiology Data Collection Disinfection Equipment Contamination Equipment Reuse Hand Disinfection Injections Inservice Training Patient safety Sterilization Humans Pennsylvania United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.)
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Pennsylvania ambulatory surgical facilities (ASFs) requested education on infection control practices and on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) Infection Control Surveyor Worksheet after CMS revised the ambulatory surgical centers interpretive guidelines in 2009 with the addition of an infection control Condition for Coverage. Review of events submitted by Pennsylvania ASFs to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Reporting System (PAPSRS) were combined with a survey of representatives of Pennsylvania ASFs at infection control workshops to focus on targeted strategies to fully implement infection control practices in ASFs. Strategies for ASFs to fully implement infection control practices focus on surveillance techniques, sterilization, disinfection, safe injections, standardized educational programs, and environmental control.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (pages 99-106))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101617026 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101617026