background infections in critical care unit are high, and they are serious hospital problems. infections acquired during the hospital stay are generally called nosocomial infections, initially known as infections arising after 48 h of hospital admission. the mostfrequent nosocomial infections (urinary, respiratory, gastroenteritis and blood stream infection) were common in patients at hospital....

Hospital-acquired infections are one of the main challenges and concerns of patients and medical staff in hospitals and healthcare centers. Meanwhile, Clostridium difficile infection is one of the most important bacterial hospital infections. Prevention is the best and most effective way to deal with these infections. Designing and using vaccines against these infectious microorganisms is the b...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence, severity and nature of adverse events (AEs) and also suggestions to prevent AEs recurrence in an Inpatient Rehabilitation Hospital (IRH) in Iran. Methods: This retrospective descriptive-analytic was conducted in 2021, in Rofaydeh rehabilitation hospital, Tehran, Iran. AEs associated with rehabilitation services and nursing care...

In recent years, dramatic changes in health care systems have shifted much of the care of sick individuals from hospitals to the community. Consequently, infections traditionally classified as community-acquired or hospital-acquired infections cannot now be readily classified into either category. We thus propose a new classification based on a wider spectrum of acquisition. A total of 1028 epi...

Results In our study; it was detected that, the hospital acquired infections developed averagely on 18 day of hospitalization, and that, the hospitalization duration increased 16.1 days due to these infections and the mortality was 14.5% higher. The additional cost per patient was approximately calculated 4435$. It was detected that, patients with hospital acquired infection caused 83.4$ of add...

BACKGROUND Critically ill patients are at marked risk of hospital-acquired infections, which increase patients' morbidity and mortality. Registered nurses are the main health care providers of physical care, including hygiene to reduce and prevent hospital-acquired infections, for hospitalized critically ill patients. OBJECTIVE To investigate a new patient hand hygiene protocol designed to re...

Background Infections in critical care unit are high, and they are serious hospital problems. Infections acquired during the hospital stay are generally called nosocomial infections, initially known as infections arising after 48 h of hospital admission. The mostfrequent nosocomial infections (urinary, respiratory, gastroenteritis and blood stream infection) were common in patients at hospit...