Recently the public's attention has been focused on the issue of hospital-acquired infections. The latest Audit Commission report (National Audit Office, 2004) reveals an increase in MRSA cases from 7,250 in 2001-2002 to 7,647 in 2003-2004. This has resulted in new action plans for prevention and control of infection.

Hospital-acquired infections are adverse patient events that affect approximately 2 million persons annually. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) is a voluntary, hospital-based reporting system established to monitor hospital-acquired infections and to guide the prevention efforts of infection control practitioners (ICPs). The NNIS approach may be a model for future programs aime...

Methods A case-control study was nested within prospective cohort HAUTIs study conducted from January to December, 2007. Surveillance was performed on all patients admitted directly from the community to one of the study wards and whose hospital stay covered 72 h or more. The cases were patients with HAUTIs, identified using definition of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Three co...

The prevention of hospital-acquired infection has recently received increased prominence as infection rates have been propelled into the spotlight of mandated public reporting, together with expectations of " getting to zero " as the benchmark for infection incidence. These revolutionary initiatives were initially directed toward surgical site infection, ventilator-associated pneumonia, and blo...

BACKGROUND Results of previous single-center, observational studies suggest that daily bathing of patients with chlorhexidine may prevent hospital-acquired bloodstream infections and the acquisition of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). METHODS We conducted a multicenter, cluster-randomized, nonblinded crossover trial to evaluate the effect of daily bathing with chlorhexidine-impregnated ...

OBJECTIVE To present a hypothetical model of the change in economic costs and health benefits to society that result from nosocomial infection control programs. DESIGN We use a modeling framework to represent how 2 types of costs change with nosocomial infection control programs: costs incurred by the hospital sector and community health services, as well as the private costs to patients. We ...

ACUTE BACTERIAL GASTROENTERITIS AS HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED INFECTION IN PEDIATRICS (Abstract): Gastroenteritis as hospital-acquired infection represents one of the most important issue to be managed in pediatric units. Material and methods: The descriptive study was conducted on a group of 536 cases with bacterial gastroenteritis as heal thcare associated infections (HAIs), admitted in „Sf. Maria” Ch...

Two patients who had undergone nonmyeloablative allogeneic stem cell transplantation 53 and 112 days earlier and were being monitored at the same transplant center developed severe Bordetella bronchiseptica infections within 3 days of each other. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis indicated that the isolates from the two cases were identical. Neither patient had had direct contact with a...

Pаtients with acute stroke, due to the specific nature of disease and treatment, represent a population patients an increased risk hospital-acquired urinary tract infection (UTI). The aim study was determine factors for UTI in stroke.

background: the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance among enterobacteriaceae is increasing worldwide. identification of pathogens and their resistance to antimicrobials is mandatory for successful empiric antibiotic treatment. the aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of antimicrobial resistance of enterobacteriaceae isolated from hospital-acquired and community-acquired infect...