News from leading international academic urology departments

News from leading international academic urology departments

Globalization has impacted upon every aspect of our lives. The digital revolution sophisticated transportation systems, and cultural understanding, have all facilitated sharing ideas and improving lives. This maturation of our world has also caused positive changes in medicine. Initially, dissemination of thoughts and ideas were dominated by a few western focused publications. Over the past dec...

Leading academic departments of psychiatry.

Academic departments of psychiatry have three missions—training psychiatrists and other clinicians, advancing scientific knowledge, and providing state-of-the-art patient care—and, together, these serve as the basis for the profession’s overarching goal: to ease the suffering of those afflicted with psychiatric illnesses. To fulfill these missions departments of psychiatry must have effective a...

Antibiotic prophylaxis in urology departments, 2005-2010.

BACKGROUND Antibiotic prophylaxis (AP) is an important measure in preventing health care-associated urinary tract infections (HAUTIs). Despite regional variations in the bacterial spectrum and antibiotic susceptibility patterns, guideline recommendations are usually given on an international level. OBJECTIVE To describe the use of AP in urology departments and relate this to relevant paramete...

Spectrum and antimicrobial resistance of uropathogens from patients with urinary tract infection in urology and non-urology departments.

Prevalence of hospital-acquired urinary tract infections in urology departments.

OBJECTIVES The aim of our study was to register the prevalence of nosocomial urinary tract infections (NAUTIs) in urology sections in Europe and Asia. METHODS A total of 6033 hospitalised patients in 194 different urology departments were screened in two Internet-based studies. Detailed reports on 727 patients with NAUTI were provided. RESULTS The prevalence of NAUTI was 10% in the Pan Euro...