BACKGROUND Healthcare-associated tuberculosis (TB) has become a major occupational hazard for healthcare workers (HCWs). HCWs are inevitably exposed to TB, due to frequent interaction with patients with undiagnosed and potentially contagious TB. Whenever there is a possibility of exposure, implementation of infection prevention and control (IPC) practices is critical. OBJECTIVE Following a hi...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to determine device-associated health care-associated infections (DA-HAI) rates, microbiologic profile, bacterial resistance, and length of stay in one intensive care unit (ICU) of a hospital member of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) in Poland. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective DA-HAI surveillance study was conducted on an ...

BACKGROUND Hospitalisation due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infection in the first 2 years after birth has been associated with increased healthcare utilisation and associated costs up to 5 years of age in children born prematurely at less than 32 weeks of gestation who developed bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). A study was undertaken to determine whether hospitalisation due to RSV inf...

Attention to healthcare-associated infections has increased, in part due to legislative mandates for monitoring infections and federal payment policies. Current systems, which rely on considerable human involvement in finding and interpreting whether clinical events represent infection, can lead to biased institutional rankings. Relying on individuals employed by reporting institutions in an en...

Since publication of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America position paper on Clostridium difficile infection in 1995, significant changes have occurred in the epidemiology and treatment of this infection. C. difficile remains the most important cause of healthcare-associated diarrhea and is increasingly important as a community pathogen. A more virulent strain of C. difficile has b...

(Healthcare-associated infection) HAI, causative organisms, associated risk factors in a neonatal intensive care unit in Turkey. Methods A prospective cohort study was conducted on patients admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) from July 2011 to June 2012. The criteria that were used to diagnose infection were in accordance with the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The ...

Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) is a common healthcare-related infection occurring in patients admitted for various ailments. Approximately 80% of hospital acquired Infections (UTIs) are catheter associated. The purpose the current research was to find out level knowledge, attitude and practice on prevention CAUTI among healthcare professionals working tertiary care hospital...