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Preventing hospital infections : real-world problems, realistic solutions / Jennifer Meddings, Vineet Chopra, and Sanjay Saint. [electronic resource]

By: Contributor(s): Series: Oxford medicine onlinePublisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021Edition: Second editionDescription: 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations (black and white)Content type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780197509180 (ebook) :
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 614.48 23
LOC classification:
  • RA969
Online resources: Summary: This text provides a detailed, step-by-step description of a model quality improvement intervention for hospitals, pinpointing the obstacles and showing how to surmount them. This second edition has been carefully updated, with new material describing some technical aspects of infection prevention, new tools for use by front-line providers, and results of recent large collaborative infection prevention studies. In easy-to-read, user-friendly language, it explains why clinicians neglect or actively oppose quality changes - from physicians who distrust change, to nurses who want to protect their turf, to infection preventionists who avoid the wards.
Holdings
Item type Home library Class number URL Status Date due Barcode
E-book University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay - Furness NHS Library Link to resource Not for loan
E-book University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay - Lancaster NHS Library Link to resource Not for loan

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This text provides a detailed, step-by-step description of a model quality improvement intervention for hospitals, pinpointing the obstacles and showing how to surmount them. This second edition has been carefully updated, with new material describing some technical aspects of infection prevention, new tools for use by front-line providers, and results of recent large collaborative infection prevention studies. In easy-to-read, user-friendly language, it explains why clinicians neglect or actively oppose quality changes - from physicians who distrust change, to nurses who want to protect their turf, to infection preventionists who avoid the wards.

Specialized.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 17, 2021).