31 min listen
Integrated, multi-specialty IPC teams - the future? With Dr David Weber
Integrated, multi-specialty IPC teams - the future? With Dr David Weber
ratings:
Length:
17 minutes
Released:
Aug 17, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
In this week's episode, Martin talks to Dr David Weber of Uniiversity Hospitals South Carolina about his hospital's integrated IPC team which includes quality improvement and behaviour specialists as well as the more traditional membership. This discussion was prompted by a recent letter to Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
1. Weber DJ, et al. A new paradigm for infection prevention programs: An integrated approach. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2022:1-4. https://doi:10.1017/ice.2022.94
2. Buchanan MO, et al. The compliance coach: A bedside observer, auditor, and educator as part of an infection prevention department's team approach for improving central line care and reducing central line-associated bloodstream infection risk. Am J Infect Control. 2019;47(1):109-111. https://doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2018.06.005
1. Weber DJ, et al. A new paradigm for infection prevention programs: An integrated approach. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2022:1-4. https://doi:10.1017/ice.2022.94
2. Buchanan MO, et al. The compliance coach: A bedside observer, auditor, and educator as part of an infection prevention department's team approach for improving central line care and reducing central line-associated bloodstream infection risk. Am J Infect Control. 2019;47(1):109-111. https://doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2018.06.005
Released:
Aug 17, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Staph. capitis in NICU - Global problem or just another CoNS trick? - with Dr Alicia Demirjian: In this podcast, Martin Kiernan talks to Dr Alicia Demirjian about the issue of seemingly increasing reports of Staphylococcus capitis cases in neonates. Alicia is Consultant Epidemiologist at the Evelina Children's hospital in London and leads the a... by Infection Control Matters