ATLAS is an Excel-based tool designed to help ambulatory infection prevention and control (IPC) programs understand the workload, program capacity, and resource allocation needs for oversight of ambulatory care.
This tool will provide a way to:
- Assess available ambulatory IPC hours
- Characterize ambulatory clinic/areas by risk and complexity
- Assess workload and hours by defined IPC activities
- Review a gap analysis of demand versus available resources
- Visualize graphics and data to support FTE requests
ATLAS is right for you if:
- You are building a new ambulatory IPC program
- You aim to strengthen and right-size your developing ambulatory IPC program
- Your ambulatory footprint is outpacing your IPC program
- You are performing an evaluation of your ambulatory IPC program resources and efficiency
- You want to re-organize or re-prioritize how your effort is spent on ambulatory IPC activities
ATLAS
- Practical and easy to use
- Generates figures and graphs from your data
- Identifies gaps Helps you make the case for additional resources
- Customizable
Other tools
- Are based on acute care beds
- Do not account for differences in clinic risks
- Assume stable workloads
- Do not quantify time demand
Step 1:
Download ATLAS Version 1.
Step 2:
Identify a time period that represents your typical workload (e.g., three months, six months, one year).
Step 3:
Review your ambulatory IPC program activities for that period and enter time spent on those activities. For example: An academic medical center with 74 clinics spent two days reviewing their ambulatory IPC program activities in 2024.
Step 4:
Once user inputs are complete, review your output summary:
- Current workload
- Time spent on activities that consume your resources the most
- Identify ambulatory IPC program needs
- Get ATLAS Version 1
- Get ATLAS User Guide
- The UCI Health APIC 2026 Poster