Description

Clinical Care Improvement Strategies: Preventing Clostridium difficile Infections gives clinicians and leaders around the world the tools they need to prevent C. difficile infections before they happen or mitigate them when infections do occur. Its concise, need-to-know format, gives the reader only the most salient and practical information in an easy-to-understand format. This e-book is available anywhere a computer or mobile device can be used.

Learn how to:

• • Comply with The Joint Commission and Joint Commission International requirements related to infection prevention and control
• • Reduce your organization’s incidence rates of C. difficile
• • Improve hand hygiene practices
• • Increase patient and family education and awareness
• • Enhance the environment of care by improving maintenance programs and equipment cleaning processes
• • Engage aggressively in an antimicrobial stewardship program

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