نتایج جستجو برای: healthcare associated infection

تعداد نتایج: 1977222  

2014
Lesley T. Bhebhe Cornel Van Rooyen Wilhelm J. Steinberg

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...

Journal: :Journal of critical care 2012
Andrzej Kübler Wieslawa Duszynska Victor D Rosenthal Malgorzata Fleischer Teresa Kaiser Ewa Szewczyk Barbara Barteczko-Grajek

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 ...

Journal: :Thorax 2009
A Greenough J Alexander P Boit J Boorman S Burgess A Burke P A Chetcuti I Cliff W Lenney T Lytle C Morgan C Raiman N J Shaw K P Sylvester J Turner

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...

Journal: :Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2013
William E Trick

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...

Journal: :Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2010
Stuart H Cohen Dale N Gerding Stuart Johnson Ciaran P Kelly Vivian G Loo L Clifford McDonald Jacques Pepin Mark H Wilcox

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...

2016
S Ben Ameur S Alibi S Mezghani L Sfaihi A Hammemi

(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 ...

Journal: :Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology 2021

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...

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