Highlights
- •Education and training of health care workers is fundamental to infection prevention.
- •A systems approach is needed for optimal health care–associated infection prevention interventions.
- •A cognitive simulation, allowing the health care workers to adopt a multidimensional perspective, should be tested for efficacy in health care settings.
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Funding/support: This work was funded in part by the National Science Foundation ( DRL-0918409 , DRL-0946372 , DRL-1247262 , DRL-1418288 , DUE-0919347 , DUE-1225885 , EEC-1232656 , EEC-1340402 , and REC-0347000 ), the MacArthur Foundation , the Spencer Foundation , the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation , and the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education at the University of Wisconsin–Madison . N.S. is supported by a Veterans Affairs–funded patient safety center and an R03 from AHRQ .
Conflicts of interest: None to report.
Disclaimer: The opinions, findings, and conclusions do not reflect the views of the funding agencies, cooperating institutions, or other individuals.