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Review
. 2023 Mar 6;12(3):521.
doi: 10.3390/antibiotics12030521.

Implementation Strategies for Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections across the Surgical Pathway: An Italian Multisociety Document

Massimo Sartelli  1 , Stefano Bartoli  2 , Felice Borghi  3 , Stefano Busani  4 , Andrea Carsetti  5   6 , Fausto Catena  7 , Nicola Cillara  8 , Federico Coccolini  9 , Andrea Cortegiani  10   11 , Francesco Cortese  12 , Elisa Fabbri  13 , Domitilla Foghetti  14 , Francesco Forfori  15 , Antonino Giarratano  10   11 , Francesco Maria Labricciosa  16 , Pierluigi Marini  17 , Claudio Mastroianni  18 , Angelo Pan  19 , Daniela Pasero  20   21 , Marco Scatizzi  22 , Bruno Viaggi  23 , Maria Luisa Moro  24
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Implementation Strategies for Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections across the Surgical Pathway: An Italian Multisociety Document

Massimo Sartelli et al. Antibiotics (Basel). .

Abstract

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) result in significant patient morbidity and can prolong the duration of the hospital stay, causing high supplementary costs in addition to those already sustained due to the patient's underlying disease. Moreover, bacteria are becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, making HAI prevention even more important nowadays. The public health consequences of antimicrobial resistance should be constrained by prevention and control actions, which must be a priority for all health systems of the world at all levels of care. As many HAIs are preventable, they may be considered an important indicator of the quality of patient care and represent an important patient safety issue in healthcare. To share implementation strategies for preventing HAIs in the surgical setting and in all healthcare facilities, an Italian multi-society document was published online in November 2022. This article represents an evidence-based summary of the document.

Keywords: antimicrobial resistance; healthcare-associated infections; infection prevention and control; surgical infections.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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