BACKGROUND Hand hygiene is a fundamental measure for the control of nosocomial infection. However, sustained compliance with hand hygiene in health care workers is poor. We attempted to enhance compliance with hand hygiene by implementing education, training, and performance feedback. We measured nosocomial infections in parallel. METHODS We monitored the overall compliance with hand hygiene ...

The German nosocomial infections surveillance system KISS was established in 1996 using a surveillance protocol based on the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System. Meanwhile data from a total of 274 intensive care units (ICU) are available, among them 134 interdisciplinary, 71 surgical, 55 medical, 9 neurosurgical and 5 paediatric ICUs. The data comprise about 6,966 surveill...

It is essential to monitor the utilisation of antibacterial drugs in order to establish appropriate measures for their control. The pattern of usage of antibacterial drugs, and its association with indicators of hospital infection, has been investigated in a non-specialized adult intensive care unit (ICU) located in Santa Luzia Hospital (Brasília, DF, Brazil). The study was conducted between Ja...

ةصلاخلا بكرملل ةدیدج تاقتشم ریضحت ىلا ثحبلا يمری 4,3,1 ةیتلاا تلاعافتلا ءارجا للاخ نم لوزایادایاث : ًلاوأ : ب كرملل فیش ةدعاق ریضحت ) 2 و نیما 5 و تبكرم 4,3,1 لوزا یادایاث ( يلیفو یلكوینلا ضیو عتلا ءارجاو ةدعاقلل يرتسلاا ب كرملا نیو كت ى لا يدؤ یل مویدو صلا دیسكوثیا دو جوب ل ثیلاا تاتیسا ومورب عم ) 3 ( ، يذ لا یازاردیھلا عم ھتلعافم تمت ن 99 % د یازاردیھلا قتشم ریضحتل ) 4 ( فیش دعاوق نم د یدع...

يديوتامورلا لصافلما باهتلا ضيرم180 ةساردلا تلمش :جئاتنلا عافترا نأ جئاتنلا ترهظأ .)اًماع 40.49±12.19 رمعلا طسوتم( يف LDL لدعم و )55.1%(لورتسلوكلا لدعم عافترا راشتنا لدعم عافترا ينب ةيئاصحإ ةوق تاذ ةقلاع دوجو نع تفشك .)51.2%( ىلع ةولاعو .)p=0.002( CRP لا هبسن عافترا و لورتسيلوكلا طاشنو يلكلا لورتسلوكلا ينب ةيباجيإ ةقلاع دوجو انظحلا ،كلذ طاقن رخآ ضرم ةكرتشلما اًماع 28 مادختساب اهسايق تم امك ،ضرلما ...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Postoperative infections should be detected earlier. We investigated the effi cacy of the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance (NNIS) score, interleukin-6 (IL-6) and various acute-phase proteins for predicting postoperative infections. DESIGN AND SETTING: Case series study at the Júlio Müller University Hospital. METHODS: Thirty-two patients who underwent major gast...

BACKGROUND The National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) and Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection Control (SENIC) indexes are designed to develop control strategies and to reduce morbidity and mortality rates resulting from infections in surgical patients. We sought to assess the application of these indexes in patients undergoing surgery for abdominal trauma and to develop an alternative ...

The effect of base temperature variation on the heat transfer from unsteady state annular heat sink of cooling microelectronic device. Three types of the base temperature variation equations are taken in the present study. The Sine wave variation, Cosine wave variation & exponential variation of the base temperature. The finite element technique based on Galerkin method with axisymmetric rectan...

Direct-acting antivirals (DAAs) targeting proteins encoded by the hepatitis C virus (HCV) genome have great potential for the treatment of HCV infections. However, the efficacy of DAAs designed to target genotype 1 (G1) HCV against non-G1 viruses has not been characterized fully. In this study, we investigated the inhibitory activities of nonnucleoside inhibitors (NNIs) against the HCV RNA-depe...

OBJECTIVE To perform active targeted prospective surveillance to measure device-associated infection (DAI) rates, attributable mortality due to DAI, and the microbiological and antibiotic resistance profiles of infecting pathogens at 10 intensive care units (ICUs) in 9 hospitals in Colombia, all of which are members of the International Infection Control Consortium. METHODS We conducted prosp...