Monitoring health disparities in healthcare-associated infection surveillance: A Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Research Network (SRN) Survey

Authors

• Caitlin L. McGrath, Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
• Latania K. Logan, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia; Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
• Valerie M. Deloney, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Arlington, Virginia
• Lorry G. Rubin, Department of Pediatrics, Cohen Children's Medical Center, Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, New York; Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Hempstead, New York
• Karen A. Ravin, Division of Infectious Diseases, Nemours Children's Hospital Delaware, Wilmington, Delaware; Department of Pediatrics, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Martha Muller, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Allison H. Bartlett, Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, The University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
• Annabelle de St Maurice, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California
• W Matthew Linam, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia; Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia
• Carolyn Caughell, Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention, Department of Quality, University of California San Francisco Health, San Francisco, California
• Lynn Ramirez-Avila, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases and Global Health, University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California
• SHEA Pediatric Leadership Council Steering Committee

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

9-13-2023

Abstract

We investigated whether and how infection prevention programs monitor for health disparities as part of healthcare-associated infection (HAI) surveillance through a survey of healthcare epidemiology leaders. Most facilities are not assessing for disparities in HAI rates. Professional society and national guidance should focus on addressing this gap.

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Publication Title

Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America

ISSN

1559-6834

First Page

1

Last Page

4

DOI

10.1017/ice.2023.181

Language (ISO)

English

Recommended Citation

McGrath CL, Logan LK, Deloney VM, Rubin LG, Ravin KA, Muller M, Bartlett AH, de St Maurice A, Linam WM, Caughell C, Ramirez-Avila L; SHEA Pediatric Leadership Council Steering Committee. Monitoring health disparities in healthcare-associated infection surveillance: A Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Research Network (SRN) Survey. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2023 Sep 13:1-4. doi: 10.1017/ice.2023.181. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37700531.