Highlights
- •Key areas were identified for improvement of IPC programs.
- •The median IPCAT-H score for hospitals was 558 out of 800.
- •Results motivates sites to share successes and support others to fill IPC gaps.
- •Repeated application of the IPCAT-H may reveal new developments and patterns.
Background
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are one of the most common adverse events
in patient care that account for substantial morbidity and mortality. We evaluate
the existing Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) practices in hospitals participating
in the nationally representative HAI Surveillance network.
Methods
This cross-sectional survey was conducted in 23 hospitals across 22 states of India
from October-2015 to September-2018 in the HAI surveillance network. The World Health
Organization (WHO) IPC core components assessment tool for health-care facility level
(IPCAT-H) was adapted from IPC assessment tool developed by US Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (US CDC) under the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC)
Infection Control Assessment and Response (ICAR) Program. Mann–Whitney U test was
used to calculate the significant difference between scores (P < .05).
Results
Amongst the participating hospitals, 7 were private sectors and 16 were public health
care facilities. Infection IPCAT-H average score per multimodal strategy was less
than 50% for programmed IPC activities (45.7); implementation of health care workers
(HCWs) immunization programme (43.5%); monitoring and evaluation component (38.30%).
Conclusions
There is potential for improvement in Human Resources, Surveillance of HAIs as well
as Monitoring and Evaluation components.
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Published online: May 13, 2022
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Conflicts of Interest: None.
Funding: This work was supported by US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-GHSA cooperative agreement 1U2GGH0011869-1 .
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