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Gaining momentum in colorectal surgical site infection reduction through a human factors engineering approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2020

Aurora E. Pop-Vicas ,
Julie A. Keating ,
Charles Heise ,
Pascale Carayon  and
Nasia Safdar Open the ORCID record for Nasia Safdar [Opens in a new window]
Aurora E. Pop-Vicas
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin
Julie A. Keating
Affiliation:
William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans’ Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin
Charles Heise
Affiliation:
Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin
Pascale Carayon
Affiliation:
Wisconsin Institute for Healthcare Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
Nasia Safdar*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, Wisconsin William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans’ Hospital, Madison, Wisconsin
*
Author for correspondence: Nasia Safdar, MD, PhD, E-mail: ns2@medicine.wisc.edu
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Abstract

Surgical site infection (SSI) prevention requires multiple interventions packaged into “bundles.” The implementation of all bundle elements is key to the bundle’s efficacy. A human-factors engineering approach can be used to identify key barriers and facilitators to implementing elements and develop recommendations for bundle implementation within the clinical work system.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 42 , Issue 7 , July 2021 , pp. 893 - 895
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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