Mobile phones and nosocomial infections

Are healthcare workers' mobile phones a potential source of nosocomial infections? Review of the literature.

Mobile communication devices help accelerate in-hospital flow of medical information, information sharing and querying, and contribute to communications in the event of emergencies through their application and access to wireless media technology. Healthcare-associated infections remain a leading and high-cost problem of global health systems despite improvements in modern therapies. The object...

Mobile phones: Reservoirs for the transmission of nosocomial pathogens

BACKGROUND Global burden of hospital-associated infection (HAI) is on the rise and contributes significantly to morbidity and mortality of the patients. Mobile phones are indispensible part of communication among doctors and other health care workers (HCWs) in hospitals. Hands of HCWs play an important role in transmission of HAI and mobile phones which are seldom cleaned and often touched duri...

Nosocomial Infections: The Definition Criteria

Are we aware how contaminated our mobile phones are with nosocomial pathogens ?

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Potential of Mobile Phones to Serve as a Reservoir in Spread of Nosocomial Pathogens

Objective: The use of cellular telephones by medical personnel and the associated nosocomial transmission of pathogens have not been thoroughly examined. The objective of this study was to determine the incidence of bacterial colonisation on mobile phones of Healthcare workers (HCWs) and its accompanying resistance to commonly used antimicrobials in a medical and dental hospital in India. Metho...