Surgical wards
Appropriate use of antimicrobial prophylaxis: an observational study in 21 surgical wards
... The survey was conducted between July 2012 and January 2013 within the regional programme for HAI prevention and control, using data regarding patients who, at that time, were currently admitted in the wards ...
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Approaches to Improving Nursing Handoffs in Surgical Wards
... for surgical patients, including ...the surgical wards of our in- stitution, we conducted a thematic content analysis, comparing and contrast- ing the ...
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Anaerobic infections in surgical wards –A two year study
... Materials and Methods: A retrospective study was conducted over a period of two years including patients with surgical infections. The specimens were processed by Gram staining, aerobic and anaerobic culture. The ...
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Variable performance of models for predicting methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage in European surgical wards
... Background: Predictive models to identify unknown methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriage on admission may optimise targeted MRSA screening and efficient use of resources. However, common approaches ...
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Acute pain treatment on postoperative and medical non-surgical wards
... the wards as well as between the different care ...medical wards have as well a legal right to achieve acute pain treatment and pain treatment in general, therefore the treatment of acute pain on medical ...
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Study on Adherence to Prophylactic Antimicrobials Use Guidelines in Surgical Wards of an Indian Private Corporate Hospital
... Cefuroxime is most commonly used and found to have used in 68.42% of clean wound cases followed by cefazolin in 14.58%. Single dose administration of first and second generation cephalosporin is sufficient for optimal ...
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Study of surgical site infection in surgical wards in Tirunelveli Medical College and Hospital, Tirunelveli
... Background : Patient whom underwent abdominal surgeries in both elective and emergencies in TVMCH was included in this prospective study. Which include clean contaminated, contaminated, dirty surgical wounds. ...
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Monitoring environmental cleanliness on two surgical wards
... male surgical ward and ward B is for females, although each occasionally hosts patients of the opposite sex when side-rooms are in short ...Both wards share medical and ancillary clinical staff ...
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<p>Impact of postoperative dexmedetomidine infusion on incidence of delirium in elderly patients undergoing major elective noncardiac surgery: a randomized clinical trial</p>
... general surgical wards rather than patients requiring sedation in the intensive care unit, where dexmedetomidine had been shown to reduce the incidence of postoperative delirium compared with other sedating ...
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Factors determining the patients’ care intensity for surgeons and surgical nurses: a conjoint analysis
... Workload is of particular importance for physicians and nurses working on surgical wards, because more than 50 % of adverse events are related to surgical procedures [16]. Therefore the risks of ...
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ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS AND SURGICAL SITE INFECTIONS IN HERNIA PATIENTS – AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY IN A PRIVATE AND GOVERNMENT TERTIARY CARE HOSPITALS
... Background: Surgical site infections are one of the most common causes of nosocomial globally resulting in high morbidity and ...the surgical wards of private and government tertiary care hospital by ...
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Patient attitudes towards remote continuous vital signs monitoring on general surgery wards: An interview study
... Semi-structured interviews were performed with patients participating in a randomised controlled study evaluating the SensiumVitals® remote continuous monitoring device (the “patch”) on two surgical wards ...
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Methods: A prospective hospital based study of 50 patients with suspicion of abdominal tuberculosis after
... A prospective hospital based study was conducted on patients admitted in the surgical wards of the Postgraduate Department of Surgery, SMHS Hospital, Government Medical [r] ...
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The identification and epidemiology of meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium difficile in patient rooms and the ward environment
... the wards for visits ...and surgical wards fluctu- ated over the last three visits with a substantially higher prevalence observed on visit 4; however, there was no significant association between ...
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The role of patients and healthcare workers Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization in occurrence of surgical site infection among patients admitted in two centers in Tanzania
... Tanzania, surgical site infection (SSI) rates range from ...among surgical pa- tients in subsequent occurrence of ...same surgical wards were also screened for ...
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Use of venous thromboprophylaxis and adherence to guideline recommendations: a cross-sectional study
... following wards: medical wards (internal medicine and other medical specialities), surgical wards (general surgery and other surgical specialities), critical care units, and emergency ...
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Adherence to Venous Thromboprophylaxis Guidelines for Medical and Surgical Inpatients of Teaching Hospitals, Shiraz-Iran
... in surgical and non-surgical ...complications. Surgical wards included neurosurgery, orthopedics and general surgery while obstetrics & gynecology, internal medicine and intensive care ...
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Challenges, uncertainties and perceived benefits of providing weekend allied health services—a managers’ perspective
... Providing a weekend allied health service in acute hospitals is potentially problematic. There are a variety of models that can be pursued, different disciplines employed, and different tasks they can perform. The in- ...
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Moral distress and the contributing factors among nurses in different work environments
... and surgical wards commonly experienced high levels of moral distress when they were assistants to physicians with insufficient authority and competence in their ...
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CHERISH (collaboration for hospitalised elders reducing the impact of stays in hospital): protocol for a multi-site improvement program to reduce geriatric syndromes in older inpatients
... intervention wards, and data collectors may also notice differences between the wards in the post-intervention period, which may introduce ...both wards and adopt new practices based on their ...
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