background staphylococcus aureus (s aureus) is one of the important agents of many infections in hospitals and society. increasing s aureus resistance to antibacterial drugs is one of the major health concerns, therefore studying antibiotic resistance of s aureus is very important and it has a main role in preventing creation of resistant strains. microorganisms in 71 cases (%14) of blood cultu...

introduction: recently, the accreditation program has been used increasingly by an emphasis on patient safety. in iran, efforts have been made to establish the accreditation program. in 2011, it replaced previous standards of traditional evaluation system. as the impact of accreditation plan need internal self assessment against minimal standards, this study aimed to survey the readiness of sel...

OBJECTIVE To know and compare the patterns of antimicrobials use in intensive care units (ICUs) based on the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical/Defined Daily Dose (ATC/DDD) system. METHODS a prospective cohort study was conducted in three medical-surgical intensive care units, two of them in public hospitals and one in a private hospital. Simple random, independent samples of patients admitted f...

BACKGROUND A Swedish version of the USA Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality "Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture" (S-HSOPSC) was developed to be used in both hospitals and primary care. Two new dimensions with two and four questions each were added as well as one outcome measure. This paper describes this Swedish version and an assessment of its psychometric properties which were t...

Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage is a significant risk factor for the epidemic staphylococcal infection in hospitals; however, few data are available for Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. To measure the nasal carriage of S. aureus and methicillin-resistant S. aureus in ENT patients, two hundred seventy patients were screened for nasal swabs. The isolates were identified as S. aureus by routine ...

Background: Staphylococcus aureus is one of the most common causes of nosocomial infections that cause a broad spectrum of diseases. Increasing antibiotic resistance among S. aureus isolates is a serious concern in the treatment and control of staphylococcal infections. The knowledge of S. aureus prevalence and the current antimicrobial resistance profile is necessary in selection of appropriat...

background: macrolides, lincosamides and type b streptogramins (mlsb) are commonly used for the treatment of staphylococcal infections. inducible mlsb resistance (imlsb) cannot be identified by standard methods of antibiotic susceptibility testing. d-test appears to be a reliable indicator of imlsb strains. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of clindamycin resistance phenotyp...

nasal mupirocin is found to eradicate effectively methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (mrsa) from colonized patients, but there are concerns about resistant strains. the aim of this study was to detect the mupirocin resistance and nasal carriage of methicillin resistant s. aureus among healthcare workers (hcws) at the university hospitals of tehran.totally 270 nasal swabs were collected...

UNLABELLED A retrospective study was conducted in five hospitals to observe the prevalence of organisms causing UTI and their sensitivity to antibiotics. METHODOLOGY Altogether, data from five hundred samples of urine from five hospitals in Kathmandu was collected for this study from January 2005 to April 2005. RESULT A total of 244 samples were found to be positive. Altogether six types of...