Introduction / objectives The incidence of healthcare associated infections in a surgical ward in Shiraz has been established as 18%  with associated costs of approx US150,000. Healthcare workers (HCWs) had acceptable levels of knowledge and attitude about hand hygiene but poor self-reported practices. We used the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) to identify predictors of handwashing to under...

Few would deny the contentiousness of the ongoing healthcare reform debate in the United States. Referencing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (P.L. 111–148), a recent article in Foreign Affairs noted that ‘‘no U.S. law has been more passionately opposed by Republicans.’’ Unsuccessful efforts to replace or repeal the Act keep coming, proposed and then voted down or withdrawn during...

OBJECTIVE To assess physicians' awareness of the infertility risk associated with race, age, and education, and to elicit their clinical management recommendations for a hypothetical patient. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Surveys were mailed to 1,000 randomly selected primary care physicians in the state of Michigan. PATIENT(S) None. INTERVENTIONS(S) None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASUR...

OBJECTIVE Compliance to hygiene behaviours has long been recognised as important in the prevention and control of healthcare associated infections, but medical doctors still display some of the lowest rates of compliance of all healthcare workers. We aim to understand compliance to hygiene behaviours by analysing medical students', junior doctors' and medical educators' narratives of these beha...

Department of Haematology, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, Department of Haematology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, St Mary’s Hospital, London, Programme Advisor, NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Programme, Division of Health and Social Care Research, School of Medicine, King’s College London, London, Department of Haematology, Frenchay Hospital, Bristol, Department o...

Forty-four of 48 Burkholderia cepacia complex strains cultured from Danish cystic fibrosis patients were Burkholderia multivorans, a distribution of species that has not been reported before. Although cases of cross infections were demonstrated, no major epidemic clone was found. The species distribution may represent the sporadic acquisition of bacteria from the environment.

'Value-based' outcomes, pricing, and reimbursement are widely discussed as health sector reforms these days. In this paper, we discuss their meaning and relationship in the context of personalized healthcare, defined as receipt of care conditional on the results of a biomarker-based diagnostic test. We address the question: "What kinds of pricing and reimbursement models should be applied in pe...

BACKGROUND There is increasing interest in public reporting of healthcare-associated infection (HAI) data in Europe, mostly for patient safety reasons. But it is uncertain whether patients and other stakeholders benefit from them. AIM To obtain the views of European infection control opinion leaders and provide information about public reporting of HAI in Europe. METHODS European Centre for...

statement of the problem the incidence of infectious diseases is considerably high among dentists and the team of dental care providers because of frequent exposure to blood and saliva. therefore, infection control regulations must be taken seriously in order to prevent cross-contamination purpose the aim of the present study was to investigate infection control measures in dental offices in ha...

Healthcare settings are dangerous places. For those receiving care, the risk of unintended harm from healthcare failures continues to be significant. Given this, there is a need to monitor standards in healthcare, not only to identify potential issues, but also to plan and evaluate interventions aimed at improving healthcare standards. Public reporting of performance standards is one aspect to ...