Upcoming Webinar:

The Critical Role of Environmental Hygiene

As hospitals and health systems continue to face economic challenges, reducing HO-CDI is a critical opportunity to drive down costs while improving the lives of patients.

In the new study, “Mitigating hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile: The impact of an optimized environmental hygiene program in eight hospitals,” researchers achieved a sustained 50% decrease in HO-CDIs across eight hospitals.

Unlike previous studies that have attempted to mitigate C. diff spread and infection, this was the first-ever controlled study of a single type of intervention—in this case, optimized environmental hygiene—to decrease endemic transmission of C. diff.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the scope of the problem and why traditional approaches to limiting the spread of C. diff in the healthcare environment fail
• Discuss new insight on the role asymptomatic carriers plays in the transmission of healthcare-onset C. diff infection
• List the critical elements of effective mitigation of hospital-onset C. diff infection
• Describe key factors for change management and implementation of an environmental hygiene program

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