Implement coordinated infection-control and outbreak-containment bundles
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Combine hand hygiene, environmental cleaning, screening, isolation or cohorting, transfer alerts and central outbreak oversight to stop resistant bacteria spreading between patients and facilities.
Israel
SuccessIsrael Ministry of Health and participating healthcare facilities · National
A clonal outbreak of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae spread across Israeli hospitals during 2006 and was not controlled by local measures. In 2007 the Ministry of Health mandated physical separation of carrie…
Monthly incidence of new CRE cases55.5 at intervention start → 11.7 by May 2008cases per 100,000 patient-days
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