Improving cleaning and disinfection performance must be taken into account for prevention and control of infection. Health care settings are engaged in a battle against healthcare associated infection (HAIs). The importance of infection prevention and control is increasing due to rapidly developing strains of multi-drug resistant organisms (MDROs) that can result in serious illness and even dea...

Background Concept maps are considered not only as a powerful method of meaningful learning, but also as an instrument for evaluating the efficiency of learning. Different inquiries suggest that concept maps by promoting critical thinking and clinical reasoning may play a significant role in increasing adherence to infection prevention methods and therefore reduce healthcare-associated infectio...

Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) infections sharply increased in the Arabian Peninsula during spring 2014. In Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, these infections occurred primarily among healthcare workers and patients. To identify and describe epidemiologic and clinical characteristics of persons with healthcare-associated infection, we reviewed laboratory-confirmed MERS-C...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the independent effect of a single lower respiratory tract infection, urinary tract infection, or other healthcare-acquired infection on length-of-stay and variable costs and to demonstrate the bias from omitted variables that is present in previous estimates. DESIGN Prospective cohort study.Setting. A tertiary care referral hospital and regional district hospital in sou...

OBJECTIVES Healthcare-associated infections after pediatric cardiac surgery are significant causes of morbidity and mortality. We aimed to identify the risk factors for the occurrence of healthcare-associated infections after pediatric cardiac surgery. DESIGN Retrospective, single-center observational study. SETTING PICU at a tertiary children's hospital. PATIENTS Consecutive pediatric pa...

BackgroundIncreased length of stay (LOS) for patients is an important measure the burden healthcare-associated infection (HAI).AimTo estimate excess LOS attributable to HAI.MethodsThis was a one-year prospective incidence study HAI observed in one teaching hospital and general NHS Scotland as part Evaluation Cost Nosocomial Infection (ECONI) study. All adult inpatients with overnight were inclu...