SHEA President Blogs About Behavior Change in Healthcare to Break Old Habits, Prevent HAIs

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Today on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)s Safe Healthcare Blog, SHEA president Jan Patterson, MD, MS, discusses the importance of breaking old habits that contribute to healthcare-associated infections. She emphasizes that, although change is never easy, the entire medical community -- from the C-Suite to the front line -- must come together to correct specific practices that allow healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) to impact the quality and safety of patient care.

Read more and join the conversation at: http://blogs.cdc.gov/safehealthcare/

 

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