BACKGROUND Evidence that hand hygiene (HH) reduces healthcare-associated infections has been available for almost two centuries. Yet HH compliance among healthcare professionals continues to be low, and most efforts to improve it have failed. OBJECTIVE To improve healthcare workers' HH, and reduce healthcare-associated infections. DESIGN 3-year interrupted time series with multiple sequenti...

INTRODUCTION Multidrug-resistant (MDR) Gram-negative healthcare-associated infections are prevalent in Singaporean hospitals. An accurate assessment of the socioeconomic impact of these infections is necessary in order to facilitate appropriate resource allocation, and to judge the costeffectiveness of targeted interventions. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective cohort study involving inpati...

The scope of a healthcare institution's infection prevention and control/healthcare epidemiology program (IPC/HE) should be driven by the size and complexity of the patient population served, that population's risk for healthcare-associated infection (HAI), and local, state, and national regulatory and accreditation requirements. Essential activities of all IPC/HE programs include but are not l...

Editorials Healthcare-associated infections in European long-term care facilities: how big is the challenge? Citation style for this article: Suetens C. Healthcare-associated infections in European long-term care facilities: how big is the challenge?. At the same time, healthcare systems are striving for cost optimi-sation, which results, among other things, in shorter hospital stays and early ...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the incidence and etiology of healthcare-associated infections in immunosuppressed children. METHODS Data collected prospectively between 1983 and 2008 were used to analyze changes in the rate, types of infection, and infecting organisms over time in patients treated at a children's cancer hospital. Neutropenia was evaluated as a risk factor. RESULTS Over th...

context we briefly reviewed the evidence on the association of hepatitis c (hcv) infection with several aspects of mental and psychosocial health. evidence acquisition medline was searched with appropriate keywords. the primary sources were the systematic reviews. if systematic reviews were not available for a subject, then the most relevant and methodologically sound original studies were sele...