Journal article
Positive Deviance: A New Tool for Infection Prevention and Patient Safety
Current Infectious Disease Reports, Vol.15(6), pp.544-548
12/2013
DOI: 10.1007/s11908-013-0372-y
PMID: 24078405
Abstract
Positive deviance (PD) may have an important role in infection prevention and patient safety in the hospital. There are many descriptions of successful stories of PD in different sectors from public health to education to business. PD has been applied in the healthcare setting to improve hand hygiene compliance, reduce methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and reduce bloodstream infections in an outpatient hemodialysis center. PD promotes dialogue among leaders, managers and healthcare workers, which is a key factor in establishing a safety culture. It also enables cultural changes aimed at empowering frontline workers (the positive deviants) to innovate and improve compliance with infection prevention measures. The structure and the process of PD, and its ability to offer a space for experience discussions, changing ideas and making plans that emerge from team participation will also be discussed.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Positive Deviance: A New Tool for Infection Prevention and Patient Safety
- Creators
- Alexandre Marra - Instituto Israelita de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein Av. Albert Einstein, 627/701, 8th floor, Morumbi São Paulo Brazil 05651-901Oscar Pavão dos Santos - Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein São Paulo BrazilMiguel Cendoroglo Neto - Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein São Paulo BrazilMichael Edmond - Internal Medicine Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond VA USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Current Infectious Disease Reports, Vol.15(6), pp.544-548
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11908-013-0372-y
- PMID
- 24078405
- NLM abbreviation
- Curr Infect Dis Rep
- ISSN
- 1523-3847
- eISSN
- 1534-3146
- Publisher
- Springer US; Boston
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2013
- Academic Unit
- Infectious Diseases; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9983905648602771
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