… homes (NHs). We sought to evaluate the changes in nursing home infection prevention and
… Our aim was to evaluate the impact of these policy initiatives on NH infection prevention and …

… How does infection prevention in NHs differ from home care? In home care, a caregiver is
… outbreaks are well known and the institutions have infection prevention processes in place. …

… to enhance routine infection prevention practices reduce … for infection prevention, our
results may not be generalizable to other types of long-term care facilities, such as assisted-living …

… infections occurred annually in nursing homes (NHs), 1 which is likely an underestimate of
the problem. Increasingly, infections in … risk population for MDRO infection and colonization in …

… infection prevention and control program.To inform the design of a program to improve infection
prevention in nursing homes, … of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), ASB, …

… of nursing home (NH) infection prevention and control (IPC) programs and (2) examine
differences in IPC program characteristics for NHs that had and had not received an infection …

… that nursing homes may need more resources to prevent citations for infection prevention …
examined the characteristics of nursing homes with infection prevention and control citations …

… infection prevention in NHs. Questions were open-ended and specific to infection prevention.
… : “What are some of the barriers to effective infection control in your facility?”, “What are the …

… his or her lie in a nursing home; more people currently occupy nursing home beds than
acute-… reside in a nursing home; there are approximately 19,000 nursing homes in this country.7 …

… staff nurses, infection prevention directors and directors of nursing) … A lack of understanding
of key infection prevention and … Further, additional infection prevention and control education …