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Jasjit Kaur1, Patricia W Stone2, Jasmine L Travers3, Catherine C Cohen2, Carolyn T A Herzig2.
Abstract
Health care-associated infections are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in US nursing home residents. Ongoing training of nursing home staff is vital to the implementation of infection prevention and control processes. Our aim was to describe associations between methods, frequency, and timing of staff infection prevention and control training and infection-related quality measures. In this national survey of nursing homes, timing of staff infection prevention and control training was associated with reduced indwelling urinary catheter use.Entities:
Keywords: Infection prevention; Long-term care; Staff training
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28625699 PMCID: PMC5581666 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2017.04.285
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Infect Control ISSN: 0196-6553 Impact factor: 2.918