Barriers and facilitators to infection prevention practices in home healthcare: a scoping review and proposed implementation framework.

ABSTRACT: Infection prevention and control (IPC) research has focused on the hospital setting, neglecting the rapidly expanding home healthcare (HHC) sector. Current infection prevention recommendations do not reflect the challenges specific to the HHC setting. This scoping review considered any original studies reporting on barriers or facilitators to infection prevention practices in the context of HHC. Study characteristics were mapped, and a descriptive content analysis was performed. Based on the findings we propose a framework of eight HHC setting characteristics relevant to infection prevention implementation. 33 studies fulfilled the eligibility criteria. A majority of studies addressed sharps injury or blood and body fluid exposure prevention (N=15) and the majority were conducted in

SUBMITTER: Brockhaus L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10864853 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature