Knowledge sharing in infection prevention in routine and outbreak situations: a survey of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Research Network

Rami Sommerstein; Sonja Geser; Andrew Atkinson; Franziska Tschan; Daniel J Morgan; Jonas Marschall

doi:10.1186/s13756-017-0237-5

Knowledge sharing in infection prevention in routine and outbreak situations: a survey of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Research Network

Antimicrob Resist Infect Control. 2017 Aug 8:6:79. doi: 10.1186/s13756-017-0237-5. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Rami Sommerstein¹, Sonja Geser¹, Andrew Atkinson¹, Franziska Tschan², Daniel J Morgan³, Jonas Marschall¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Freiburgstrasse 18, 3010 Bern, CH Switzerland.
² Institute of Work and Organizational Psychology, University of Neuchatel, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
³ VA Maryland Health Care System, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland USA.

Abstract

In this cross-sectional Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Research Network survey on knowledge sharing in infection prevention we identified a rudimentary understanding of how to communicate and share knowledge within healthcare institutions. Our data support the need of further research in this important field.

Keywords: Communication; Infection prevention; Knowledge sharing; Knowledge translation; Web-based training.