OBJECTIVE To explore organisational workflow and workplace culture influencing antibiotic prescribing behaviour from the perspective of key health care providers working in residential aged care facilities (RACFs). DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Qualitative approach using semistructured interviews, focus groups and onsite observation between 8 January 2013 and 2 July 2013. Nursing staff, ge...

Introduction / objectives Surgical-site infections (SSI) account for about 24% of hospital infections. Due to short postoperative staying, SSI diagnosis is eventually made after discharge. SSI rates may be under reported; therefore surveillance after discharge is needed to obtain reliable indices of SSI and to improve quality of care. Aim: To describe the SSI rate assessed after discharge and t...

BACKGROUND Little is known about temporal trends in the incidence and mortality associated with bacteremia in the general population. METHODS We conducted a population-based cohort study in Northern Denmark to examine changes in bacteremia occurrence and 30-day mortality from 1992 through 2006. All patients who received a diagnosis of bacteremia were identified in a population-based bacteremi...

The economics of preventing hospital-acquired infections is most often described in general terms. The underlying concepts and mechanisms are rarely made explicit but should be understood for research and policy-making. We define the key economic concepts and specify an illustrative model that uses hypothetical data to identify how two related questions might be addressed: 1) how much should be...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a leading cause of nosocomial infections. One thousand two hundred and twenty strains of mucoid and non-mucoid types of P. aeruginosa isolated from different patients were examined at Siriraj Hospital from January 2001-October 2003. The prevalences of P. aeruginosa mucoid type and non-mucoid type were 3.6% and 96.4%, respectively. Susceptibility testing was performed b...

The study aimed at learning the social representations of the legal implications of hospital infections (HI) and analyze how these representations are articulated with the quality of work developed by the health and law professionals. The data were produced through interviews and processed by software Alceste4.8. The descendant hierarchical analysis showed 04 classes of words, that objected the...

https://jkms.org Nowadays in Korea, legal problems with healthcare-associated infection (HAI) are prosecuted under criminal law. And the doctors and nurses who are tied to this problem are summoned by the police as suspects. Their homes are subjected to domiciliary search and their possessions are confiscated. Moreover, even a bill is under way to forcibly close a hospital if a patient dies by ...

Background Reports of nosocomial infection due to carbapenem resistant Serratia spp. have become significantly more common. This resistance may be due to production of distinct carbapenemases, such as KPC [1,2]. This enzyme, initially described in Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates, has also been detected among other organisms, such as Serratia marcescens, emphasizing the global risk of interspecie...