Infection Prevention & Control

2026-02-01 · 4 min

Overview

The Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) module supports hospital infection surveillance, hand hygiene auditing, antibiotic stewardship, outbreak management, and HAI (Healthcare-Associated Infection) rate tracking. It is designed for infection control nurses and committees.

Surveillance

Active infection surveillance:

• Device-associated infections: CLABSI, CAUTI, VAP with standardised definitions and denominators.
• Surgical Site Infections (SSI): Tracking by procedure type with risk stratification.
• Multi-drug resistant organism (MDRO) tracking: MRSA, VRE, ESBL, CRE.
• Alert organism notifications: When the lab identifies an alert pathogen, the IPC team is auto-notified.
• Infection rate calculation: Device-associated infection rates per 1000 device-days.

Hand Hygiene Auditing

Conduct hand hygiene compliance audits:

• WHO 5 Moments audit tool with observer recording.
• Audit by ward, profession, and shift.
• Compliance rate calculation with trend charts.
• Feedback mechanisms: Department-wise compliance reports shared with HODs.
• ABHR (Alcohol-Based Hand Rub) consumption tracking per patient-day.

Antibiotic Stewardship

Support antimicrobial stewardship programs:

• Restricted antibiotic approval workflow: Auto-flag when a doctor prescribes a restricted antibiotic.
• ID (Infectious Disease) consult request triggered for specific organisms or antibiotics.
• Antibiogram: Annual facility-wide antibiotic susceptibility summary.
• DDD (Defined Daily Dose) and DOT (Days of Therapy) metrics.
• De-escalation tracking: Monitor step-down from empiric to targeted therapy.

Outbreak Management

When an outbreak is suspected:

1. Declare an outbreak with case definition.
2. Line list generation: Auto-populate from lab and clinical data.
3. Epidemiological curve (epi curve) auto-generated.
4. Environmental sampling documentation.
5. Control measures tracking: Isolation, cohorting, enhanced cleaning.
6. Outbreak closure with final report and lessons learned.

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