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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Infection prevention and control"”.

  1. Occupational Infection Prevention and Control Training for the Protection of Hospital Healthcare Workers

    Qureshi, Mohammed Owais ; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1077-9404UNSW, Sydney2022

    It has been suggested that when adherence to infection prevention control (IPC) protocols is in place, the risk of transmission of infectious diseases to patients and other healthcare workers (HCWs) appears low. Adherence to IPC recommendations and protocols depends on many factors including …

    unsw Repository record

  2. An ethnographic study of infection prevention and control practices in a mental health trust

    Hughes, J2012

    Health care associated infections are high on the National Health Service agendadue to associated increased morbidity and mortality rates and subsequentlyadded pressure of reductionist performance targets. Failure to meet these resultsin financial penalties, cost pressures, litigation and poor …

    salford Repository record

  3. Infection prevention and control effectiveness and safety : validation of a survey for long term care facilities

    Schall, ValerieUniversity of British Columbia2008

    Objectives: To develop and validate a survey that can be used to measure key infection prevention and control (IP&C) structures and processes in LTC facilities. Methods: This study was designed using a three-phase methodology. In Phase I, six structural and process composite indices were developed …

    ubc Repository record

  4. Auditing healthcare facilities against the National Core Standards for occupational health and safety and infection prevention and control: compliance, reliability and impact

    Cloete, Brynt LindsayDepartment of Public Health and Family Medicine2016

    … national organisations to improve patient safety and quality of care, despite inconclusive evidence to support its effectiveness. In South Africa, the National Core Standards for health establishments in South Africa (NCS) was published in 2011. The NCS recognises that staff are vital to ensuring …

    cape-town Repository record

  5. An exploration of cultural issues affecting staff compliance with recommended infection prevention and control practices in a ‘ring-fenced’ acute hospital elective surgical ward

    Makoni, Axilia-TanakaseiUniversity of Essex2018

    Healthcare associated infection (HCAI) poses a serious threat to patients admitted into hospital as well as health care staff. Whilst recommendations for preventing HCAI exist, many research studies, primarily quantitative in nature, have reported serious concerns about the suboptimal infection …

    essex Repository record

  6. Organizational Climate and Hospital Infection Preventionists

    Nelson, Shanelle2013

    Healthcare associated infections (HAI) continue to be a significant patient safety problem. Researchers have found that nurses; perception of organizational climate is associated with patient outcomes. However, given the increased prevalence of HAI, an examination of multiple organizational factors …

    columbia-diss Repository record

  7. Colonisation with extended spectrum beta-lactamase producing and carbapenem-resistant enterobacterales in children admitted to a paediatric referral hospital in South Africa

    Ogunbosi, Babatunde OluwatosinDepartment of Paediatrics and Child Health2020

    … Enterobacterales (ESBL-PE) and carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) among children in subSaharan Africa. Colonisation often precedes infection and multi-drug-resistant Enterobacterales are important causes of invasive infection. Methods: In this prospective …

    cape-town Repository record

  8. Data Augmentation and Machine Learning for Risk Assessment in Healthcare Associated Infections

    RIELA, Paolo MarcoUniversità degli studi di Catania2022

    Acquisition and analysis of extensive datasets is, today, a central tool in most research fields. Machine learning provides powerful methods to obtain descriptive and predictive models for the data in many applications. The acquisition of quality information is fundamental for the reliability and …

    catania Repository record

  9. Compliance with burns treatment protocal by nurses at Kabwe central hospital, Kabwe, Zambia.

    Munjili, BwalyaThe University of Zambia.2020

    … burns result in more than 7.1 million injuries and more than 250,000 deaths worldwide, with the vast majority being in low and middle income countries. In Zambia, at Kabwe Central Hospital, burn trauma is one of the commonest causes of trauma admissions in surgical wards. To mitigate the trend, …

    zimbabwe Repository record

  10. Compliance with burns treatment protocol by nurses at Kabwe central hospital, Kabwe, Zambia.

    Munjili, BwalyaThe University of Zambia2022

    … burns result in more than 7.1 million injuries and more than 250,000 deaths worldwide, with the vast majority being in low and middle income countries. In Zambia, at Kabwe Central Hospital, burn trauma is one of the commonest causes of trauma admissions in surgical wards. To mitigate the trend, …

    zimbabwe Repository record

  11. Compliance with burns treatment protocal by nurses at Kabwe central hospital, Kabwe, Zambia.

    Munjili, BwalyaThe University of Zambia.2020

    … burns result in more than 7.1 million injuries and more than 250,000 deaths worldwide, with the vast majority being in low and middle income countries. In Zambia, at Kabwe Central Hospital, burn trauma is one of the commonest causes of trauma admissions in surgical wards. To mitigate the trend, …

    zambia Repository record

  12. Compliance with burns treatment protocol by nurses at Kabwe central hospital, Kabwe, Zambia.

    Munjili, BwalyaThe University of Zambia2022

    … burns result in more than 7.1 million injuries and more than 250,000 deaths worldwide, with the vast majority being in low and middle income countries. In Zambia, at Kabwe Central Hospital, burn trauma is one of the commonest causes of trauma admissions in surgical wards. To mitigate the trend, …

    zambia Repository record

  13. Public health surveillance systems "Evidence informing practice"

    Wozniak, TeresaUNSW, Sydney2016

    … surveillance, each utilising different methods and data sources to inform relevant areas of public health practice in NSW. The first study, which investigated the epidemiology of STIs in NSW, is an example of population-level surveillance. The findings illustrate that surveillance data for STIs …

    unsw Repository record

  14. Performance and energy efficiency of low irradiance antimicrobial violet-blue light for environmental decontamination applications

    Sinclair, Lucy GoodwinUniversity of Strathclyde2024

    Healthcare associated infections are one of the most frequent adverse events to occur during healthcare delivery, affecting 7-15% of patients with an estimated mortality of 10%. The healthcare environment plays a significant role in the transmission of pathogens which can instigate such infections. …

    strathclyde Repository record

  15. Combatting β-lactamase-mediated antimicrobial resistance: from novel assays for inhibitor discovery to new diagnostics

    Jeffs, Mitchell2025

    … antibiotic via a hydrolytic mechanism. Thus, infections caused by β-lactamase-producing bacteria are associated with markedly high mortality rates. Combatting β-lactamase-mediated antimicrobial resistance requires efforts in developing novel technologies for the discovery of new therapeutics, …

    queens Repository record

  16. An ethical assessment of the adoption of pre-exposure prophylaxis as a potential HIV prevention method in Zambia

    Chilukwa, Mwimba Martin2013

    … Prophylaxis a method used to prevent HIV infection by administering anti-retroviral drugs to HIV negative people should be implemented in Zambia. The current HIV prevention methods include condoms and Post-exposure Prophylaxis. The specific objectives of the study are to explain methods …

    zimbabwe Repository record

  17. An ethical assessment of the adoption of pre-exposure prophylaxis as a potential HIV prevention method in Zambia

    Chilukwa, Mwimba Martin2013

    … Prophylaxis a method used to prevent HIV infection by administering anti-retroviral drugs to HIV negative people should be implemented in Zambia. The current HIV prevention methods include condoms and Post-exposure Prophylaxis. The specific objectives of the study are to explain methods …

    zambia Repository record

  18. Hand hygiene compliance in the intensive care unit of the Onderstepoort Veterinary Hospital, South Africa

    University of Pretoria2019

    Infection prevention and control (IPC) practices play an important role in the prevention and management of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) in healthcare facilities and hand hygiene is the cornerstone of all IPC practices. Despite the effectiveness of IPC in the management of HAIs, its adoption …

    pretoria Repository record

  19. Assessing the effectiveness of Tuberculosis infection control in public healthcarefacilities in the Khomas region

    Mulokoshi, TheopolinaUniversity of Namibia2019

    … transmission of MDR/XDR-TB places both patients and healthcare workers at an even higher risk. For these reason health facilities in high-risk settings need to implement effective tuberculosis (TB) infection prevention and control (IPC) policies/guidelines. Several studies elsewhere demonstrated …

    namibia Repository record

  20. An exploration of the use of theory and visualisation in behaviour change interventions to help healthcare staff prevent and control healthcare-associated infections.

    Tsattalios, KonstantinosRobert Gordon University2019

    … is of paramount importance in improving infection prevention and control (IPC), and decreasing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Thus many supportive interventions have been developed in pertinent areas, such as hand hygiene (HH). The concepts of theory and visualisation in …

    rgu Repository record

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