Study Finds Intervention Models Checked Against EMR Data Show Ways To Help Improve Infection Control Practices, Reduce Infections

Healio (1/24, Stulpin) reported, “Intervention models checked against electronic medical record data show ways to help improve infection control practices and reduce infections, according to a recent study.” One researcher said, “Collecting measures of pathogen absolute abundance (ie, pathogen load) on patient room surfaces, combined with HCW [healthcare worker] visit and patient movement data from EMR, could provide a rich tapestry describing the patient-environment-HCW network and the role of patient and HCW shedding in transmission.” The findings were published in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.