Preventing Hospital Infections

Jennifer Meddings, MD, MSc is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Michigan Health System and the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System.Vineet Chopra, MD, is Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine and Research Scientist at the University of Michigan and VA Ann Arbor Health System. Sanjay Saint, MD, MPH, MACP, is the Chief of Medicine at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and the George Dock Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan.

• Preface About the Authors 1. An Effective Strategy to Combat Hospital Infections 2. Committing to an Infection Prevention Initiative 3. Types of Interventions: Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection 4. Types of Interventions: Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection 5. Building the Team 6. The Importance of Leadership and Followership 7. Common Problems, Realistic Solutions 8. Joining a Collaborative 9. Toward Sustainability 10. Taking on Clostridioides difficile 11. The Future of Infection Prevention Appendices References Index

Most infection prevention related literature is found in scholarly journals or textbooks covering definitions and research surrounding each specific hospital-acquired infection. I found this book to be a refreshing and needed take that would be valuable to the entire healthcare team focusing on prevention of infections. It is of excellent quality and written by experts in the field, combined with appropriate and timely references.