Section 5.9 · Pillar 1 · Clinical Excellence, Patient Safety & Quality of Care
Infection Prevention and Control
IPC as the foundation of patient safety, workforce protection and health security, with committees and monthly indicators.
The issue
Infection prevention and control is essential for patient safety, workforce protection, and health security. Standards should include hand hygiene, personal protective equipment, waste management, sterilization, disinfection, isolation protocols, surgical site infection prevention, healthcare-associated infection surveillance, antibiotic stewardship, environmental cleaning, and staff training.
Priority components
What good looks like in this domain, expressed as the components an institution should be able to show.
- 01Hand hygiene
- 02Personal protective equipment
- 03Waste management
- 04Sterilization and disinfection
- 05Isolation protocols
- 06Surgical site infection prevention
- 07Healthcare-associated infection surveillance
- 08Antibiotic stewardship
- 09Environmental cleaning
- 10Staff training
Implementation
What this domain requires in practice: the standard, the pack, the measurement, the tools and the evidence.
Standards
No approved ASQAT standards have been published for this domain yet. The standards layer is in place so that approved statements can be released without restructuring the platform.
Measurement
Measurement specifications for this domain are being developed. Indicator definitions are published only once the numerator, denominator and data source are agreed.
Measurement frameworkResources
Implementation resources for this domain are currently in development. Approved policies, procedures, checklists and tools will be released through the resource library.
Open the libraryAwaiting approved content
Evidence in practice
No approved implementation evidence has been published for this domain yet. Case studies are published only after review of what was measured and how.