An exploration of cultural issues affecting staff compliance with recommended infection prevention and control practices in a 'ring-fenced'acute hospital elective …

AT Makoni - 2018 - repository.essex.ac.uk
Healthcare associated infection (HCAI) poses a serious threat to patients admitted into
hospital as well as health care staff. Whilst recommendations for preventing HCAI exist …

[HTML][HTML] Towards changing healthcare workers' behaviour: a qualitative study exploring non-compliance through appraisals of infection prevention and control …

N Shah, E Castro-Sánchez, E Charani… - Journal of Hospital …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Improving behaviour in infection prevention and control (IPC) practice remains
a challenge, and understanding the determinants of healthcare workers'(HCWs) behaviour …

Influences of healthcare workers' behaviours towards infection prevention and control practices in the clinical setting: A systematic review

GA Mutsonziwa, M Mojab, M Katuwal, P Glew - Nursing Open, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To systematically evaluate empirical studies investigating the influences of healthcare
workers' behaviours towards infection prevention and control practices in the Coronavirus …

Healthcare workers' attitudes to and compliance with infection control guidelines in the operating department at the university hospital of the West Indies, Jamaica

CD McGaw, I Tennant, HE Harding, SO Cawich… - International Journal of …, 2012 - ijic.info
Surgical operations provide opportunities for the transmission of infection between patients
and healthcare workers (HCWs) and between patients. This risk may be increased in under …

Healthcare associated infection awareness and accountability: implications for perioperative practice. A literature review

L Mitchell - ACORN, 2008 - search.proquest.com
Hospital intervention resulting in a patient receiving a complication or injury is identified as
an adverse event h Healthcare associated infections (HAIs) are examples of such adverse …

Barriers and bridges to infection prevention and control: results of a case study of a Canadian surgical unit.

C Backman, PB Marck, N Krogman… - … Journal of Infection …, 2011 - search.ebscohost.com
Infection prevention and control (IP& C) of multidrug-resistant organisms is an
increasing challenge in hospitals worldwide. Objective In this study, we attempt to identify …

Changing the mindset on hospital infections

B Duerden - The Bulletin of the Royal College of Surgeons …, 2008 - publishing.rcseng.ac.uk
The prevention and control of health-care-associated infections (HCAIs) is a key priority for
the NHS. After a quarter of a century in which infection was considered more of a nuisance …

[HTML][HTML] The politics and ethics of hospital infection prevention and control: a qualitative case study of senior clinicians' perceptions of professional and cultural factors …

GL Gilbert, I Kerridge - BMC health services research, 2019 - Springer
Background Hospital infection prevention and control (IPC) programs are designed to
minimise rates of preventable healthcare-associated infection (HAI) and acquisition of …

[HTML][HTML] It is time to define an organizational model for the prevention and management of infections along the surgical pathway: a worldwide cross-sectional survey

M Sartelli, FM Labricciosa, F Coccolini… - World journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Background The objectives of the study were to investigate the organizational characteristics
of acute care facilities worldwide in preventing and managing infections in surgery; assess …

[HTML][HTML] Infection prevention control and organisational patient safety culture within the context of isolation: study protocol

J Gammon, J Hunt, S Williams, S Daniel… - BMC health services …, 2019 - Springer
Background Healthcare associated infection (HCAI) is a major cause of morbidity and
mortality. In recent years, there have been high profile successes in infection prevention …