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Table 4 The checklist of interventions implemented in period 3

From: Effect of a real-time automatic nosocomial infection surveillance system on hospital-acquired infection prevention and control

Interventions

• Quality management tools were used to analyze the risk factors for certain infections in high infection wards or high infection sites (e.g., urinary tract infection, sepsis, pneumonia), and appropriate improvement measures not only but including supervision of hand hygiene, strengthening environmental hygiene and increasing environmental hygiene monitoring were formulated

• Implemented MDRO cases transmission preventions: especially hand hygiene, environmental hygiene, isolation in combination with personal protective equipment

• Sufficient trainings (e.g., about adequate hand hygiene, environment hygiene, prevention and control knowledge of infections and so on) were provided to healthcare workers including physicians, nurses and cleaners

• The utilization rate of antibiotics and the rate of pathogen culture monitored by RT-NISS. Reported monthly utilization rate of antibiotics and rate of pathogen culture in each ward

• Performance reward or economic measures was used to encourage outstanding infection control management wards and restrain terrible infection control management situation

• Enhanced cooperation between infection control physicians and healthcare workers for preventing and controlling HAIs