WASHINGTON – Five major health care organizations have came together to issue a set of guidelines and strategies to help prevent six potentially lethal hospital-associated infections.
The guidelines, endorsed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, address central line-associated bloodstream infections, ventilator-associated pneumonia, catheter-associated urinary-tract infections, surgical-site infections, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and the intestinal bacteria Clostridium difficile.
Hospitals across the country have been working for years to reduce these infections, and locally, the Rhode Island Intensive Care Unit Collaborative has made significant strides in some areas, such as pneumonia and bloodstream infections.
The new guidelines were produced by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and the Infectious Diseases Society of America, in partnership with the American Hospital Association, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology and The Joint Commission (formerly the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals), which accredits more than 15,000 health care organizations nationwide. •
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