TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 10. Healthcare-Associated Infections A1 - Wachter, Robert M. PY - 2012 T2 - Understanding Patient Safety, 2e AB - Before the patient safety movement began, the prevention of hospital-acquired infections was seen as the job of the hospital epidemiologist and other infection control staff, who tried (often unsuccessfully) to engage clinicians in prevention efforts. Branding healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) as a patient safety problem (which by extension rendered failure to engage in appropriate infection control practices a form of medical error) has elevated the importance of these infections and propelled prevention into the mainstream. SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/19 UR - accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=56250923 ER -