CDC’s Role in Promoting Patient and Healthcare
Personnel Safet y
L. Clifford McDonald, MD, FACP, FSHEA
Senior Advisor for Science and Integrity
Frontline Hospital Workers and the Worker Safety /Patient
Safety Relationship
October 25, 2012
Nat ional Cent er for Emerging and Zoonot ic Infect ious Diseases
Paradigm for Elimination within a
Public Health Context
Elimination of
Healthcare Associated Infections
Adherence to Evidence
Aligning Incentives
Based Prevention
Innovation
Research Emerging
Practices
Issues
Financial Investments and Resources
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2010 Nov;31(11):1101-5.
Data for Action
Role of Patient Care Area Environmental Surfaces
in Healthcare-associated Infections
Source Control
The
Environment
Screening
Isolation
Hand Hygiene
Infected and
Colonised
Figure Courtesy of Jon Otter
Healthcare
Workers
Hospital Acquired
Infections
CDC Environmental Cleaning Evaluation Toolkit
http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/prevent/prevention_tools.html
“Not Just a Maid Service”
15 minute video produced by Illinois Department of Health
http://www.notjustamaidservice.com/2011/11/16/film/
For More
Information
Cliff McDonald
[email protected]
For more information please contact Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1600 Clifton Road NE, Atlanta, GA 30333
Telephone, 1-800-CDC-INFO (232-4636)/TTY: 1-888-232-6348
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.cdc.gov
The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official
position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Nat ional Cent er for Emerging and Zoonot ic Infect ious Diseases
Division of Healt hcare Qualit y Promot ion