Efficacy of Infection Control Measures in Reducing Hospital-Acquired Infections: A Systematic Review and Recommendations for Improvement

Nowadays, nosocomial infections and their management is a global challenge in the healthcare settings. Since COVID- 19, hospital infection has gained global level interest. This review will focus on the recent developments that has been developed to prevent and control hospital infections. There are various strategies implemented at the clinical level which includes hand hygiene, personal- protective equipment, environmental cleaning, and novel technologies on the other hand administrative and management strategies includes staffing, training, surveillance, and compliance monitoring and for policy frameworks we have WHO guidelines, national action plans, and accreditation standards. Even though there are various strategies implemented for prevention but there will always remain implementation gaps in the low- resource settings Tomczyk, S., Twyman, A., de Kraker, M. E., Rehse, A. P. C., Tartari, E., Toledo, J. P., ... & Allegranzi, B. (2022)