Home care environments are not adequately catered for by existing infection prevention guidelines.

Commentary on : Dowding D, Russell D, Trifilio M, et al . Home care nurses’ identification of patients at risk of infection and their risk mitigation strategies: a qualitative interview study. Int J Nurs Stud . 2020;8:103617.\n\n\n\nGrowing life expectancy, increasing number of elderly individuals with chronic disease, becoming at risk of antimicrobial drug resistance and hospital infection, increasing length and costs of hospitalisation are most important reasons for establishing home healthcare centres all over the world.1–3 The majority of posthospital discharge patients require home care. These patients are at risk …