Highlights
- •The use of technologic innovation (eg. antimicrobial catheters) to prevent HAIs is widespread.
- •Both larger and smaller hospitals have adopted technologic approaches to HAI prevention.
- •Although the recent decrease in CLABSI is largely attributed to practice changes (checklist/insertion bundle), widespread technologic interventions may have also played a role.
- •Almost all hospitals have some form of antimicrobial stewardship.
An array of devices and products designed to prevent health care-associated infections
are commercially available. Data indicating device efficacy are often mixed and frequency
of product use is largely unknown. This statewide assessment was performed to determine
hospital use of infection prevention products and to examine differences between larger
and smaller hospitals.
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Publication History
Published online: June 15, 2016
Footnotes
This work was presented in abstract form at the 41st Annual Meeting of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc, Anaheim, CA, June 8-10, 2014.
Conflicts of Interest: MER receives research contract support from 3M, Magnolia, and the National Institutes of Health and serves as a paid consultant for 3M and Sharklet. PL serves as a paid consultant for Nobel Biomaterials, Inc.
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© 2016 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
