A national Infection in Critical Care Quality Improvement Programme for England: A survey of stakeholder priorities and preferences.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Severe infection is one of the most common causes of critical illness. Healthcare-associated infections complicating critical illness bring the additional challenge of multidrug resistance. However, England lacks a national surveillance system for infections in intensive care units. Prior experience with surveillance systems suggests that they are most effective when placed within a collaborative quality improvement framework.

Method

A national survey of adult, paediatric and neonatal intensive care doctors, nurses, microbiologists and infection control practitioners was undertaken throughout the UK to determine stakeholder engagement.

Results

Of 763 respondents (80% ICU physicians; 8% nurses) from 158 hospital Trusts across the UK, 721 (94.4%) supported

SUBMITTER: ICCQIP Collaboration 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5606375 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature