Health Care–Associated Infections (HAIs)

Frequency of Bacterial Species Associated with Nosocomial Infection among Health Care Personnel in Nigeria

Nosocomial infections are a serious public health issue today. They are a major cause of morbidity and mortality. Their pathologies are responsible for considerable increase in health care expenses despite the widely recognized efforts of public health authorities to keep them under control [1]. Almost two million nosocomial infections are detected every year in the United States, 80,000 of whi...

328Clinical Impact of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDRO) causing Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) in 10 Colombian cities

328. Clinical Impact of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms (MDRO) causing Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs) in 10 Colombian cities Gabriel Motoa, MD; Cristhian Hernandez, Bsc; Victor M Blanco, MD; Juan S. Muñoz, MD; Adriana Correa, MSc; Elsa De La Cadena, Bsc; Maria V. Villegas, MD, MSc; Colombian Nosocomial Resistance Study Group; Centro Internacional De Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Médica...

HHS: a draft for closer scrutiny of HAIs in ASCs.

Advances in the Prevention and Control of HAIs

This paper describes our journey to advance the science and practice of patient safety and quality improvement. The journey began with efforts to identify hazards through an incident reporting system called the Intensive Care Unit Safety Reporting System. We quickly found that identifying hazards was merely a first step. We also needed to investigate and learn from these hazards to prevent pati...

بار اجتماعی و اقتصادی عفونت های اکتسابی بیمارستان

There is constant danger of patients admitted into the hospital acquiring infection while in the hospital. Such infections are known as Hospital Acquired Infections(HAI) or Nasocomial Infections. Appearing of hospital infections is one of important health care quality indicators. These infections, annually impose many costs on secondary, tertiary and primary health care sectors, the patients ...