Collaboration Between Infection Prevention, Food Services Departments At Hospital Lowers Risk For Foodborne Infections, Study Finds

Healio (7/16, Feller) says, “A collaborative effort between the departments of infection prevention and food and nutrition services at a hospital identified potential sources of foodborne infection, resulting in a reduced risk for infections, researchers reported.” The infection prevention “and nutrition teams increased inspection rounds and used compliance audits – more than 150 individual line items were identified – to ensure that best practices and infection control procedures were being followed.” This “resulted in a 20% improvement in compliance over the first year-and-a-half of the effort.” The findings were presented at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology annual meeting.