While considerable attention has been paid to how the design of nursing units can help reduce nurse fatigue, improve safety, and reduce nosocomial infection rates, much less attention has been paid to how nursing unit design influences informal communication patterns, on-the-job learning, and job stress and satisfaction. Yet the literature consistently cites communication among diverse caregive...

Results In our study; it was detected that, the hospital acquired infections developed averagely on 18 day of hospitalization, and that, the hospitalization duration increased 16.1 days due to these infections and the mortality was 14.5% higher. The additional cost per patient was approximately calculated 4435$. It was detected that, patients with hospital acquired infection caused 83.4$ of add...

Background: Infectious diseases are major public health problems, among which blood-borne ones are the most important infections. Patients who undergo orthopedic surgery are at higher risk of transmitting infectious diseases from and to others, due to repeated blood examinations and injection, drains secretion and receiving blood products. Accordingly, in this study we determined prevalence of ...

The prevention and control of healthcare-associated infection (HCAI) is a priority for the NHS. The delivery of national targets for reducing methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemias and Clostridium difficile infection are supported by enhanced mandatory surveillance through the Health Protection Agency and a Department of Health improvement programme that promotes policies and ...

Hai Nguyen, 17, and his family arrived in Versailles Village from a refugee camp in Malaysia when he was 11. His family settled in New Orleans because his mother, who was born and raised in the Vietnamese village of Vung Tau, had a brother there. Hai is a high school junior now, and he is planning to attend college after another year. He says he wants to go to Tulane or Loyola because he has fr...

Introduction Pseudomonas aeruginosa is well-known cause of hospital infections with high morbidity and mortality rates [1]. According to the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System (NNISS), P. aeruginosa is responsible for approximately 8% of all hospital infections. It was the most frequent cause of ventilator-associated pneumonias (VAP), the fourthrated on the list of causes of hos...

The problem of Pseudomonas as a nosocomial pathogen is not new, with some authors dating its onset to the start of the antimicrobial era, although other factors, such as the growth of intensive or augmented care, have a part to play. This paper outlines the historical and environmental issues that may be associated with a potential increase in the incidence of this difficult-to-treat pathogen.

Simpson's paradox was first recognized at the beginning of the 20th century, but few examples with real data have been presented. In this paper we present an example of this phenomenon from a multicenter study on nosocomial infections, and we try to explain intuitively this type of extreme confounding.

The dependence of the incidence of the hospital infection on the number of the beds was studied by using SIR model with the computer simulation. We obtained the result that the hospital with more beds has a higher probability of experiencing an outbreak. The integration of smaller hospitals into a larger hospital was once considered economically advantageous and such a policy has been implement...