{"id":648,"date":"2016-09-30T11:42:56","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T15:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.229.122.34\/en\/?page_id=648"},"modified":"2017-01-13T14:27:27","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T19:27:27","slug":"infection-prevention-control","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/quality-safety\/infection-prevention-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Infection Prevention &#038; Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nationally recognized for its leadership in infection control, The Ottawa Hospital&#8217;s Infection Prevention and Control Program is an essential component of quality patient care. The program&#8217;s evidence-based guidance and recommendations help reduce the risk of infection for patients, staff and visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The program helps ensure the protection of patients, health-care workers, staff and visitors from preventable hospital acquired disease through surveillance, education, consultation, outbreak investigation, research and the development of policies and procedures.<\/p>\n<h2>Hospital-Acquired Infection<\/h2>\n<p>A hospital-acquired infection is one that was not present or incubating prior to the patient being admitted to the hospital, but occurred within 48-72 hours after admittance to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/en\/quality-safety\/reporting\/indicator-reporting\/\">TOH monitors infection rates<\/a> very closely. Despite our best efforts, hospital acquired cases of MRSA, and C difficile are on the rise in hospitals across Canada. This increases is due to a number of reasons including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Today\u2019s hospitalized patients are sicker than ever before;<\/li>\n<li>The number of patients with weakened immune systems is increasing;<\/li>\n<li>New devices and procedures with inherent risks are in use;<\/li>\n<li>Antibiotic use is resulting in the development of resistant bacteria;<\/li>\n<li>Increased travel allows global spread of bacteria and other pathogens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To combat this rise in infection rates, TOH has implemented several measures to address infection rates, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hand hygiene program with increase access to alcohol-based hand rub;<\/li>\n<li>Screening patients on admission for silent carriage of resistant germs;<\/li>\n<li>Use of single rooms, gowns, and gloves to control spread;<\/li>\n<li>Renovations to patient care areas;<\/li>\n<li>Increased housekeeping resources;<\/li>\n<li>Education and awareness campaigns for patients and health-care providers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Learn more about:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/documents\/2017\/01\/9-17-antibiotic-associated-diarrhea-pt-info-2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"\" href=\"\/en\/quality-safety\/reporting\/indicator-reporting\/clostridium-difficile-c-difficile\/\" target=\"\">C difficile<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/en\/quality-safety\/reporting\/indicator-reporting\/methicillin-resistant-staphylococcus-aureus-mrsa\/\">MRSA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phac-aspc.gc.ca\/phn-asp\/2015\/ncoronavirus-eng.php\" target=\"_blank\">MERS-CoV<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationally recognized for its leadership in infection control, The Ottawa Hospital&#8217;s Infection Prevention and Control Program is an essential component of quality patient care. The program&#8217;s evidence-based guidance and recommendations help reduce the risk of infection for patients, staff and visitors. The program helps ensure the protection of patients, health-care workers, staff and visitors from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":193,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-648","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/648\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}