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A national Infection in Critical Care Quality Improvement Programme for England: A survey of stakeholder priorities and preferences

Author(s) -

ICCQIP Collaboration

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

journal of the intensive care society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.551

H-Index - 14

eISSN - 2057-360X

pISSN - 1751-1437

DOI - 10.1177/1751143715598791

Subject(s) - benchmarking , medicine , infection control , stakeholder , intensive care , quality management , family medicine , nursing , environmental health , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , business , public relations , political science , marketing , service (business)

Severe infection is one of the most common causes of critical illness. Healthcare-associated infections complicating critical illness bring the additional challenge of multidrug resistance. However, England lacks a national surveillance system for infections in intensive care units. Prior experience with surveillance systems suggests that they are most effective when placed within a collaborative quality improvement framework.

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