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Developing a sustainable infection control program in health care
Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, The Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and Welfare. Jönköping University, School of Engineering, JTH. Research area Industrial Production. (QUASER, The Jönköping Academy)ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4853-3140
KTH, STH and The Jönköping Academy . (QUASER, The Jönköping Academy for Improvement of Health and Welfare)
2012 (English)In: In proceedings of the 6th NOVO symposium on Sustainable Health Care: Continuous Improvement of Processes and Systems, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 25-26 November 2012, 2012Conference paper, Poster (with or without abstract) (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Introduction

The increasing threat of resistant bacteria has become a progressively more important issue and a major challenge to deal with in health care systems. In 1995 the Medical Society Reference Group for Antibiotics Questions (RAF) started a Strategic Program for rational use of antibiotics and reduced antibiotic resistance called Strama. In 2006 Strama received a commission from the government and a permanent financing and on July 2010 a national Strama council was formed as an advisory body to support the Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control in issues regarding 1) use of antibiotics and reduced antibiotic resistance and 2) efforts to promote cross-sectorial and locally established approach includings relevant authorities, county councils, municipalities and nonprofit organizations.

In May 2011 a working group within Strama was formed in hospital A on behalf of The Director of Public Health and Healthcare in the county. The Urology Unit was chosen as a pilot department as urinary infections account for more than 30 percent of all hospital-acquired infections and contributes to the overuse of antibiotics. On behalf of The Director of Public Health and Healthcare in the county, the urology clinics at the three hospitals in the county during the past year merged into a common Urology Unit as a part of the process in gaining better control of infection spread when patients move between hospitals depending on the type of treatment that each hospital is specialized on. This merger involves in itself a number of major challenges.

 

Materials and methods

A process in the Strama work related to the Urology Unit at the County Council was followed during autumn 2011 and spring 2012 by interviewing project leaders, members of the Strama group, clinicians, attending meetings, studying documents and by observations.

 

Results and conclusions

The Strama group has been working at obtaining uniform working methods and procedures as it has been varying between physicians and clinics. They have also developed methods to inform about the latest treatment guidelines to assist clinicians to work properly.

A problem is the difficulty for clinicians to obtain feedback on their treatment results, since the current IT systems do not enable a convenient way to access measurement data over time, which also affects the motivation of staff documenting the measurements. The Strama team therefore work together with the IT unit at the hospital to develop a so-called E-portal to provide quick feedback on clinical measurement data and prescribing patterns for antibiotics

During the spring 2012 Strama-responsible physicians and Department Care Developers from all clinics were invited to learning seminars. The aim was that each clinic would initiate mapping and improvement work at the clinical level of three important Strama areas: antibiotics, hospital acquired infections, epidemiology and resistance.

The work performed by the Strama-team is perceived as a great support at the surgical department where the urological patients are cared for after surgery. So the Strama work is now beginning to take off in the county but there are many challenges to be solved e.g. the implementation takes time due to cultural differences, between units and personnel, inefficient and incompatible information systems,  organizational boundaries and lack of time for improvement work for clinicians.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2012.
Keywords [en]
Infection control, Quality improvement, Health care development
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Medical and Health Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-20284OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-20284DiVA, id: diva2:589643
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The 6th NOVO symposium on Sustainable Health Care: Continuous Improvement of Processes and Systems, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm 25-26 November 2012.
Projects
QUASER: Quality and Safety in European Union Hospitals
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EU, European Research CouncilAvailable from: 2013-01-21 Created: 2013-01-18 Last updated: 2022-06-10Bibliographically approved

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