Implementing a continuous quality-improvement framework for tuberculosis infection prevention and control in healthcare facilities in China, 2017–2019

• DOI: 10.1017/ice.2023.287
• Publication Date: 2024-01-25T08:31:08Z
• Authors: Canyou Zhang; Stephanie O’Connor; Sarah E. Smith-Je...; Diana Forno Rodri...; Hui Guo; Ling Hao; Hui Chen; Yanbo Sun; Yan Li; Jiying Xu; Liang Chen; Lan Xia; Xing Yang; Anand Date; Jun Cheng
• Keywords: 0301 basic medicine; Epidemiology; Economics; Infection control; FOS: Health sciences; Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology; Global Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance; 03 medical and health sciences; Latent Tuberculosis; Health Sciences; Pathology; Humans; Tuberculosis; Intensive care medicine; Quality management; Management and Epidemiology of Pneumonia; Economic growth; Immunology and Microbiology; Infection Control; Cross Infection; Health care; Life Sciences; Transmission (telecommunications); Computer science; Infectious Diseases; Environmental health; Operations management; Telecommunications; Medicine; Original Article; Health Facilities; Clinical Practice Guidelines; Management system; Delivery of Health Care

Tuberculosis (TB) infection prevention and control (IPC) in healthcare facilities is key to reducing transmission risk. A framework for systematically improving TB IPC through training mentorship was implemented 9 China from 2017 2019.