Major ArticleTranslating infection prevention evidence into practice using quantitative and qualitative research
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Study overview
Drawing on the conceptual framework described in detail above, we plan to study the adoption and implementation of important, evidence-based infection prevention practices. More specifically, we are using a sequential mixed methods study design that relates a quantitative survey data analysis phase to a qualitative semistructured interview and observational phase (see Fig 2).55 In the first phase, we will survey hospital infection control professionals to describe quantitatively and compare the
Conclusion
Infection control and hospital epidemiology is a modern day success story. Infection control professionals and hospital epidemiologists, using the valid methods of applied epidemiology–surveillance, benchmarking, intervention, evaluation–have largely been responsible for dramatically reducing the incidence of HAIs over the past several decades. We believe that the field of infection control can–and should–also be a leader in understanding how research findings can be efficiently and effectively
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Supported by grant funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs, Health Services Research and Development Service (SAF 04-031); by a Career Development Award from the Health Services Research and Development Service of the Department of Veterans Affairs (to S.S.); and by a Patient Safety Developmental Center Grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (P20-HS11540, to T.P.H. and S.S.).