cover image: Reducing the transmission of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile in the Canadian healthcare system by enabling front line healthcare worker behavioural change using positive deviance / : Réquire la transmission de Staphylococcus aureus résistant à la méthicilline et de Clostridium difficile dans le système des soins de santé du Canada en favorisant les changements de comportement des travailleurs de la santé de première ligne au moyen de la déviance positive

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Reducing the transmission of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile in the Canadian healthcare system by enabling front line healthcare worker behavioural change using positive deviance / : Réquire la transmission de Staphylococcus aureus résistant à la méthicilline et de Clostridium difficile dans le système des soins de santé du Canada en favorisant les changements de comportement des travailleurs de la santé de première ligne au moyen de la déviance positive

3 Jun 2013

"This project was an 18-month trial of using Positive Deviance and other Liberating Structures to help decrease healthcare associated infections in Canadian acute care facilities. This approach was chosen because given that healthcare organizations are highly complex systems, it was felt that a "bottom up" approach could address many of the behavioural and culture challenges that have been resistant to change using more traditional, top down, command and control approaches"--page 6.
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Authors

Gardam, Michael, Mather, Charles M, Reason, Paige, McCandless, Keith, Zimmerman, Brenda, Goel, Vivek, Crowcroft, Natasha, Van Dijk, Marlies, Bryce, Elizabeth, Rykert, Liz

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Public Health Ontario
University of Calgary
Pages
42
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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