Abstract
Despite scientific and technological advances, Legionella continues to be a major threat to patients in healthcare settings. To be effective the control of Legionella need a competent attention based on a correct risk assessment and on consequent operative choices.
Highlights
Despite scientific and technological advances, Legionella continues to be a major threat to patients in healthcare settings
- Identification of several critical points for each area; - Split of each critical point into items to be answered in form of questionnaire; - Classification of items through a multidisciplinary consensus into 4 risk categories (1 - best practice/low to no risk, 2 - possible Legionella presence/ medium risk, 3 - probable Legionella presence/high risk, 4 - demonstrated Legionella presence/ very high risk); - Analysis of the 3 areas scores in order to define a general risk score and a structure related risk score; - Use of a risk matrix to define final priorities
- A subjective feasibility score which allows definition of priorities tailored to the local setting
Summary
Despite scientific and technological advances, Legionella continues to be a major threat to patients in healthcare settings. To be effective the control of Legionella need a competent attention based on a correct risk assessment and on consequent operative choices
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