Surveillance healthcare-associated infections
The prevalence of healthcare associated infections among adult inpatients at nineteen large Australian acute-care public hospitals: a point prevalence survey
... in Healthcare were first released in 2010 ...and surveillance is now well established ...national surveillance program should be used to inform priorities for future ...
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Improved hospital level risk adjustment for surveillance of healthcare associated bloodstream infections: a retrospective cohort study
... To allow direct comparison of rates of HAI between hos- pitals, observed rates need to be risk adjusted according to the types of patients cared for by the hospital [3]. Without risk adjustment, hospitals might be ...
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The design and application of surveillance systems in improving health outcomes and identifying risk factors for healthcare associated infections
... for surveillance (the denominator) and the application of standard, and as far as possible objective, criteria to determine cases of infection (the numerator) with prescribed methods of case finding based on ...
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Prospective surveillance of healthcare-associated infections and patterns of antimicrobial resistance of pathogens in an Italian intensive care unit
... This study had a couple of limitations. An HAI inci- dence study should preferably be performed on large cohorts, taken from a national ICU sample. The conse- quence of a small population size is the low probability of ...
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Incidences and influences of device-associated healthcare-associated infections in a pediatric intensive care unit in Japan: a retrospective surveillance study
... We would like to thank our staff in the PICU of the Osaka Medical Center and Research Institute for Maternal and Child Health for their collaboration with this study. In addition, we would like to thank Yoshiyuki ...
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Healthcare-Associated & Hospital Acquired Infection and its Infection Control
... of healthcare associated infections are limited by the absence of reliable and routine standardised surveillance ...of healthcare associated infections are mostly from ...
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Healthcare-associated infections in intensive care units in Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan: recent trends based on national surveillance reports
... Substantial variation exists for causative pathogens of HAI across the three countries. This variability could be due to a number of factors, including baseline character- istics of participating hospitals and ICUs, ...
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Incidence of healthcare-associated infections in a tertiary hospital in Beijing, China: results from a real-time surveillance system
... some infections without fever and microbiology test were identified through the antibiotic usage ...the surveillance system in the ...the surveillance system only collected the frequency of ...
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Modelling the transmission of healthcare associated infections: a systematic review
... Models are often used to increase epidemiological understanding. Hospital surveillance data, which is frequently used to inform HCAI models, can lack detail in what is needed for modelling purposes. For example, ...
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Surveillance of healthcare acquired infections in hospital and community: a retrospective study in Local Healthcare Organization of Rovigo
... worldwide. Infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria are associated with higher incidences of mortality, morbidity, prolonged hospital stay and increase of ...costs. Surveillance of alert ...
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Healthcare-associated infections including neonatal blood stream infections in a leading tertiary hospital in Botswana
... The prevalence of HAIs in Botswana hospitals is currently unknown. Whilst some hospitals in Botswana have started embarking on monitoring of HAIs due to the requirements of the health-care accreditation process, this is ...
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The distinct category of healthcare associated bloodstream infections
... In this study we found that significant differences between the three acquisition classifications in relation to demographics, co-morbidities, microbiology, and hos- pital course and mortality outcomes. On one hand, the ...
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The design and application of surveillance systems in improving health outcomes and identifying risk factors for healthcare associated infections
... robust surveillance system can be used to assess the quality of infection control practice related to surgical procedures, increase awareness of the risk of SSI and encourage surgi- cal teams to take appropriate ...
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Report of the unannounced inspection at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin
... 2.5.2 Surveillance of invasive device-related and surgical site infection The surveillance of healthcare-associated infection is one of the core components of an effective infection prevention ...
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Cork University Maternity Hospital, 30 November 2017
... of healthcare-associated infection for example surgical site infection surveillance was not performed at Cork University Maternity ...of surveillance programmes for ...
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Connolly Hospital, 14 December 2017
... 2.5.2 Surveillance of invasive device-related and surgical site infection The surveillance of healthcare-associated infection is one of the core components of an effective infection prevention ...
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Pseudomonas aeruginosain a neonatal intensive care unit: molecular epidemiology and infection control measures
... parents. Healthcare-associated infections were defined using standard Centers for Disease Control and Prevention def- initions adapted to neonatal pathology ...[11]. Infections occurring after ...
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Healthcare associated infections in pediatric cancer patients: results of a prospective surveillance study from university hospitals in Germany and Switzerland
... (RSV) infections were reported from a single center ...cal-site infections (SSIs), the most prevalent were Staphy- lococcus aureus (n = 7; 1 of these MRSA) and CoNS (n = 5; 2 of these ...
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Surveillance of healthcare associated infections in a neonatal intensive care unit in Italy during 2006–2010
... of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and reductions in HAIs rates are to be expected on the medium to long term period at those institutions which systematically carry out such activities ...
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Prospective surveillance of healthcare associated infections in a Cambodian pediatric hospital
... Reductions in HAI rates of 20 to 30% have been seen with the introduction of effective infection prevention and control (IPC) programs, alongside HAI surveillance [12–14]. Other interventions known to reduce HAI ...
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