A National Intervention to Reduce Undesirable Urinary Tract Events in Internal Medicine Wards

Transfers of patient care between house staff on internal medicine wards: a national survey.

BACKGROUND Transfer of responsibility for patient care between physicians is a key process in the care of hospitalized patients. Systems of transfer management and transfer frequency may affect clinical outcomes. METHODS To characterize the systems by which patient information is transferred ("signed out") between resident physicians in internal medicine residency programs and to determine th...

Effectiveness of a multi-component intervention to reduce delirium incidence in elderly care wards.

OBJECTIVE to examine the effect of a multi-component, delirium prevention intervention on rates of incident delirium for patients admitted to specialist elderly care wards. DESIGN 'before' and 'after' study. SETTING three specialist elderly care wards in a general hospital. SUBJECTS older people admitted as emergencies. METHODS a multi-component delirium prevention intervention that tar...

Nurse-directed interventions to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections.

BACKGROUND Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are common, morbid, and costly. Nearly 25% of hospitalized patients are catheterized yearly, and 10% develop urinary tract infections. Evidence-based guidelines exist for indwelling urinary catheter management but are not consistently followed. METHODS A pre/post intervention design was used in this quality improvement project t...

Census of Ligurian Internal Medicine Wards of non-teaching hospitals

What is the future of internal medicine in Italy? Which competencies? Which potentialities? To this aim Ligurian FADOI Regional Society performed a census among 18 Internal Medicine Wards (IMWs) in non-teaching Ligurian Hospital. We administered, by email, a questionnaire to the heads of IMWs. Data about staffing, equipment, skills, competencies and productivity during 2011 were collected from ...

Surveillance to reduce urinary tract infections: the STRUTI project.