Improve infection control by collecting data.
As someone responsible for controlling infections at your organization, you’re well aware of how valuable and essential data are to your IC program. HCPro’s newest IC resource, Improving Infection Control With Data, Second Edition: A Guide to Ensuring Quality Care and JCAHO Compliance, will make your data collection process easier, and more effective.
The second edition of this successful resource is the ultimate guide to collecting data for infection control. This book comprises a series of short “how-to” scenarios and real-life examples, which take readers through the process of collecting, analyzing, and acting upon infection control data to meet The Joint Commission’s IC requirements. The second edition also includes new National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System benchmarks.
Show The Joint Commission you mean business when it comes to IC
When it comes to patient safety, infection control continues to be a top priority focus area. IC incidents may be reported as sentinel events, and in many cases must be reported at the local, state, and national levels.
Over the past three years—since the launch of the first edition of Improving Infection Control With Data—the Joint Commission has added and refined many of its IC standards. Today, the accreditor mandates that hospital programs must reduce infection rates. Your fastest way to meet this requirement is refining your data collection process.
It’s no longer enough for hospitals to simply promote IC through posters and inservices. You must actually show that you are taking action to track every infection arising at your facility and that you are actively reducing infection incidences.
To meet the requirements of Joint Commission—as well the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Patient Safety Foundation, American Hospital Association, American Medical Association, and many other organizations—you must be diligent in collecting and analyzing IC data. With Improving Infection Control With Data, Second Edition, HCPro has made that process much easier for your organization.
This book discusses the importance of proper data collection; gives you formulas, calculations, and benchmarks to analyze your data; and provides customizable charts so you can easily display your data. With all these tools, you’ll be able to meet the Joint Commission’s requirements and provide sound feedback regarding patients’ quality of care.
You’ll also receive:
- data collection forms to help you ensure that you collect consistent data for each infection
- tips for recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of potential data sources
- clear explanations of the most current Joint Commission standards related to infection control
- tools to help you put together your annual surveillance plan
- expert advice on avoiding common data analysis pitfalls
- guidelines for creating and using control charts to interpret data and convert them into information you can use to improve patient care
- directions for creating comparison charts to measure your performance against external benchmarks
- real-life examples of how one infection control professional uses data analysis to discover, track, and eliminate healthcare-acquired infections
Through the expert strategies and advice offered in this resource, you’ll be able to use your IC data to its maximum potential to comply with the many regulators, increase infection control efforts, and decrease the number of infections in your facility.
Customize your infection control program
Improving Infection Control With Data, Second Edition: A Guide to Ensuring Quality Care and JCAHO Compliance also comes with first-rate tools on CD-ROM that will help you record, benchmark, and graph your infection control data to help you maintain the high level of compliance you established with the help of the first edition.
The CD-ROM provides monthly logs that automatically calculate month-end totals for use in data collection charts. It also includes spreadsheets with formulas that will automatically calculate key statistical information—such as rates, means, and standard deviations—to create control and comparison charts. You can use these tools to track your infection rates and compare your data with national benchmarks.
With Improving Infection Control With Data, Second Edition, you’ll be able to chart a clear course of action to reduce infection rates, improve the quality of care that you provide to patients, and much more. The sooner you order this invaluable resource, the sooner you’ll have your organization compliant with existing IC regulations.
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