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ArticleHCA healthcare journal of medicine2024

Infection Prevention: The Small but Mighty Teams in Health Care.

E Jackie Blanchard

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Article in HCA healthcare journal of medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

E Jackie BlanchardHCA Healthcare Clinical Services Group, Nashville, TN.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Description Infection prevention is a team within health care facilities and systems whose members are vital to reducing and mitigating patient harm secondary to infectious disease. Infection preventionists are subject matter experts who reside in the quality department and are responsible for multiple areas beyond infectious disease spread. They assist nursing teams, employee health programs, and epidemiologists in decreasing the spread of illness. They are widely under-recognized, though they have a significant impact on the overall stability of the health care system and the communities they serve.

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communicable diseasescross infectionhospitalsinfection controlinfection preventioninfectious disease

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PMID39524943
PMCPMC11547280

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