Abstract:Background: Prevention and control of infections is a priority in the current health sector, and prevention of infection is an indicator of the quality of services provided. Purpose: to examine the available evidence about the application of the Six Sigma method in the prevention and control of infections in hospitals. Method: The database used to identify suitable articles obtained from Scopus, Pubmed, Ebscohost and Summon was limited to the last 5 years of publication from 2014 to 2019, English, and fulltext… Show more
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