Critical care bug team: A multidisciplinary team approach to reducing ventilator-associated pneumonia

Infectious Disease Consultation and Microbiologic Surveillance for Intensive Care Unit Trauma Patients: A Pilot Study

“…To combat such bias, Classen et al [7] recommended matching patients according to severity of illness scores, exact sites of infection, and possibly exact pathogens. A critical care multidisciplinary team was successful in reducing the rates of ventilator-associated pneumonia [20]. Byl et al [21] found that when empiric antibiotic therapy for bacteremia was guided by ID specialists, treatment was significantly more appropriate, and this was linked to a lower patient mortality rate.…”

Prolonged delay for controlling KPC-2–producing Klebsiella pneumoniae outbreak: The role of clinical management

“…22 Finally, outbreak control was successfully achieved when a bundle of infection control measures was promptly implemented with the help of an external expert team. Multidisciplinary approaches, especially multifaceted interventions, have been demonstrated to be an effective way to reduce the rate of health careeassociated infection, especially in the ICU for ventilatorassociated pneumonia 27 and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections. 28 In our study, few infection control measures were assumed to be in place in the ICU before the implementation of the bundle of infection control measures.…”

Using an interdisciplinary approach to identify factors that affect cliniciansʼ compliance with evidence-based guidelines

“…We focus on clinicians' compliance with guidelines to reduce infection rates as a case in point, although some of the findings generalize to compliance at several levels and across many clinical subject areas. Healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) are a common cause of preventable harm (13,14), and much work has been done to improve compliance with infection control guidelines (15)(16)(17)(18)(19), making it a rich and focal topic for this analysis. Based on our review, we propose an interdisciplinary conceptual framework that describes the presumed causal pathway of clinicians' compliance with evidence-based guidelines.…”