Health care infection control is a team effort.
There is a real risk that services targeted at elimination of health care-associated infections (HAIs) will continue to be fragmented as various health care disciplines remain reluctant to collaborate and engage with each other. Prevention of HAIs necessitates the cooperative exchange of ideas and best practices across the broad spectrum of professionals involved in this effort. While laudable, the CDC toolkit seeks to impose programs, processes and checklists on health care facilities with little regard for the organizational structure and programs currently in place.
