Process control charts in infection prevention: Make it simple to make it happen.

•Utilization of Statistical Process Control (SPC) in infection prevention is critical to clearly understand trends and issues in any particular facility.•Use of SPC in infection prevention is limited partially due to the cost associated with software that provides a simple user interface with automated evaluation of the data.•Using free, open-source software, we created an application to create process control charts using infection prevention data.•This manuscript outlines our selection of software, creation of the application, evaluation using simulated infection prevention data, and offers all programs for free download.