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Infection Prevention and Control Tools for Pediatric Clinical Settings

Organization: The Pediatric Affinity Group

Topics: Infection control and prevention, Patient Safety

Partners: 
American Academy of Pediatrics | Child Health Corporation of America | National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ) | National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions
Year: 
2007
Description: 

The National Initiative for Children’s Healthcare Quality (NICHQ), a partner in IHI's Saving 5 Million Lives Campaign, has supported the organization of The Pediatric Affinity Group, a partnership of four organizations, working with leading U.S. hospitals, to create tools to provide adapt IHI's How-to-Guides for patient safety to children's health care. 

The NICHQ web site features five tools designed to help hospitals reduce hospital-acquired infections in children:

  • - Reducing Reduce Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) – Pediatric Supplement
  • - Central Line Infections – Pediatric Supplement
  • - Central Line Infections – Pediatric Supplement Measures Grid
  • - Ventilator Associated Pneumonia - Pediatric Supplement
  • - Reducing Surgical Complications/Surgical Site Infections – Pediatric Supplement

 

Fulltext URL: 
http://www.nichq.org/patient_safety_infections.html