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Translating Evidence into Practice Using a Systems Engineering Framework for Infection Prevention

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2016

Eric Yanke,
Pascale Carayon and
Nasia Safdar
Eric Yanke
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin
Pascale Carayon
Affiliation:
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Nasia Safdar*
Affiliation:
William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin; and Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, Wisconsin
*
UWMF Centennial Building,1685 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53705 (ns2@medicine.wisc.edu).
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The current infection prevention era is defined by the rise of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). Efforts to combat these and other emerging pathogens have resulted in rapid and ongoing evolution of the contemporary infection prevention environment. Currently, HAIs impose a significant burden on the US healthcare system. Recent analysis of National Healthcare Safety Network data from the early 2000s suggests that at least 1.7 million HAIs occur yearly in US hospitals, associated with at least 99,000 deaths. These numbers have likely increased over the past decade and suggest that HAIs are among the leading causes of death in the United States.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 35 , Issue 9 , 01 September 2014, pp. 1176 - 1182
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© 2014 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.

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