Healthcare Manuals
Sector: Healthcare (MRSA)
Title: MRSA Field Guide: Maryland Patient Safety Center 2007
Organization(s) Involved: Maryland Patient Safety Center
Date: 2007
Summary: This manual helps distinguish between Best Practices and Positive Deviance and takes readers through the steps of using Positive Deviance in their own setting to search for solutions to stop the spread of MRSA and other hospital acquired infections. “Where other processes are OUTSIDE JOBS, PD is an INSIDE JOB.” -Dr. Jon Lloyd
Resource Spotlight:
Letting Go, Gaining Control: Positive Deviance and MRSA Prevention
This article, recently featured in Clinical Leader, discusses healthcare-associated infections and outlines the specific steps of the PD process that some pioneering hospitals are taking to reduce transmission.