Objective To investigate the hand hygiene(HH) accuracy and the effectiveness of bundle interventions in a general tertiary hospital.
OBJECTIVE Commercial manufacturers of hygiene products, like liquid soap, modify and refresh the external attributes of their products to maintain their product profile in the public eye.
Objective To assess the feasibility and effectiveness of the World Health Organization hand hygiene improvement strategy in a 4300beds hospital, a resource-poor area in China.
Whether a drug-resistant pathogen can be labeled as a MDRO is based on its clinical & medical relevance, including 1) the extent of antibiotic resistance (2 antibiotics? 3 antibiotics? ＞ 4 antibiotics
Carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) including VIM-, KPC-and NDM-producers are considered a major concern by the medical community due to their rapid spread worldwide and the limited availabi
Bacteria colonization is the prelude to infection and also the source and realization of the spreading of bacterial infection.
Audits are conducted to assess healthcare workers compliance to recommended infection control practices to improve quality of patient care.Before year 2012, we utilized an audit tool which included to
Growing cost concerns, increasing morbidity and mortality rates, and understandable expectations of patients and patient-advocates have all led to the growing interest in making healthcare-associated
In 2001, the mandatory surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staph.aureus (MRSA) bacteraemias was introduced in the UK.The surveillance showed a dramatic rise in the number of bloodstream infections a
Every day too many patients suffer from a lack of access to improved sanitation and proper bedpan-management which put patients at risk for Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI).