From the guidelines: veterinary practice biosecurity tracker

A breach in infection control, prevention, and biosecurity can lead to medical, social, and financial impacts on patients, clients, and staff, as well as damage the reputation of the hospital. The  2018 AAHA Infection Control, Prevention, and Biosecurity Guidelines lays out ways to mitigate these negative outcomes.

By using the guidelines, practices can improve upon their current efforts by limiting pathogen exposure from entering or being transmitted throughout the hospital population, and learn to use surveillance methods to detect any new entry of a pathogen into the practice.

One useful tool in the guidelines is the Veterinary Practice Biosecurity Tracker. By using this simple online tool, your team will be able to measure your progress towards optimal infection disease control in your hospital by tracking which tactics you have fully, partially or not yet implemented.

AAHA’s veterinary practice guidelines offer the latest clinical and nonclinical guidance on a wide range of topics. From the Guidelines presents bite-sized nuggets of wisdom from these guidelines for the practice team to consider.

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