A bundle strategy including patient hand hygiene to decrease clostridium difficile infections

Medsurg Nurs. 2014 May-Jun;23(3):145-8, 164.

Abstract

Prevention strategies for Clostridium difficile infection traditionally have addressed barrier precautions, environmental disinfection, and health care worker hand hygiene. When applied as a bundle, this approach has been used widely as an evidence-based strategy to prevent hospital-acquired C. difficile infection. Expanding the bundle to include patient hand hygiene is a nurse-driven approach to prevent C. difficile transmission.

MeSH terms

  • Anti-Infective Agents
  • Clostridioides difficile
  • Clostridium Infections / nursing*
  • Clostridium Infections / prevention & control*
  • Cross Infection / prevention & control*
  • Disinfection*
  • Evidence-Based Nursing / methods
  • Hand Hygiene*
  • Humans
  • Infection Control / methods*
  • Organizational Case Studies / statistics & numerical data
  • Patient Compliance*
  • Pennsylvania
  • Tertiary Care Centers

Substances

  • Anti-Infective Agents