TY - JOUR
T1 - A self-reported survey on the implementation of infection prevention and control elements in Indian hospitals, part of a HAI surveillance network
T2 - Results from 23 hospitals conducting a standardized IPC assessment
AU - Katyal, Sonal
AU - Srivastav, Sharad
AU - Katoch, Omika
AU - Rodrigues, Camilla
AU - Rupali, Priscilla
AU - Chakrabarti, Arunaloke
AU - Ray, Pallab
AU - Biswal, Manisha
AU - Tak, Vibhor
AU - Nath, Reema
AU - Mukhopadhyay, Chiranjay
AU - Bhattacharya, Sanjay
AU - Padmaja, Kanne
AU - Deotale, Vijayshri
AU - Venkatesh, Vimala
AU - Wattal, Chand
AU - MA, Thirunarayan
AU - Nag, Vijaya Lakshmi
AU - Ray, Raja
AU - Behera, Bijayini
AU - Baveja, Sujata
AU - Karuna, Tadepalli
AU - Singh, Sanjeev K.
AU - Fomda, Bashir
AU - Devi, Sulochana K.
AU - Das, Padma
AU - Khandelwal, Neeta
AU - Verma, Prachi
AU - Thangavelu, Premkumar
AU - Nazir, Shaista
AU - Eshwara, Vandana K.
AU - Varma, Muralidhar
AU - Mishra, Tushar S.
AU - Das, Rashmi R.
AU - Malhotra, Rajesh
AU - Walia, Kamini
AU - Guleria, Randeep
AU - Mathur, Purva
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was conducted as part of multicentric surveillance project titled “Capacity Building and Strengthening of Hospital Infection Control to Detect and Prevent Antimicrobial Resistance in India”. We thank Paul Malpiedi, Daniel VanderEnde, Siromany Valan (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) and the ICMR and AIIMS team for their assistance with this capacity building project. We acknowledge the support of the Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) cell of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Directorate General of Health Services for this work.
Funding Information:
Funding: This work was supported by US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-GHSA cooperative agreement 1U2GGH0011869-1 .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc.
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are one of the most common adverse events in patient care that account for substantial morbidity and mortality. We evaluate the existing Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) practices in hospitals participating in the nationally representative HAI Surveillance network. Methods: This cross-sectional survey was conducted in 23 hospitals across 22 states of India from October-2015 to September-2018 in the HAI surveillance network. The World Health Organization (WHO) IPC core components assessment tool for health-care facility level (IPCAT-H) was adapted from IPC assessment tool developed by US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC) under the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) Infection Control Assessment and Response (ICAR) Program. Mann–Whitney U test was used to calculate the significant difference between scores (P < .05). Results: Amongst the participating hospitals, 7 were private sectors and 16 were public health care facilities. Infection IPCAT-H average score per multimodal strategy was less than 50% for programmed IPC activities (45.7); implementation of health care workers (HCWs) immunization programme (43.5%); monitoring and evaluation component (38.30%). Conclusions: There is potential for improvement in Human Resources, Surveillance of HAIs as well as Monitoring and Evaluation components.
AB - Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are one of the most common adverse events in patient care that account for substantial morbidity and mortality. We evaluate the existing Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) practices in hospitals participating in the nationally representative HAI Surveillance network. Methods: This cross-sectional survey was conducted in 23 hospitals across 22 states of India from October-2015 to September-2018 in the HAI surveillance network. The World Health Organization (WHO) IPC core components assessment tool for health-care facility level (IPCAT-H) was adapted from IPC assessment tool developed by US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US CDC) under the Epidemiology and Laboratory Capacity (ELC) Infection Control Assessment and Response (ICAR) Program. Mann–Whitney U test was used to calculate the significant difference between scores (P < .05). Results: Amongst the participating hospitals, 7 were private sectors and 16 were public health care facilities. Infection IPCAT-H average score per multimodal strategy was less than 50% for programmed IPC activities (45.7); implementation of health care workers (HCWs) immunization programme (43.5%); monitoring and evaluation component (38.30%). Conclusions: There is potential for improvement in Human Resources, Surveillance of HAIs as well as Monitoring and Evaluation components.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ajic.2022.04.014
DO - 10.1016/j.ajic.2022.04.014
M3 - Article
C2 - 35577058
AN - SCOPUS:85131840163
SN - 0196-6553
VL - 51
SP - 29
EP - 34
JO - American Journal of Infection Control
JF - American Journal of Infection Control
IS - 1
ER -
