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An Assessment of the Relationship Between Hospital Reimbursements and Hospital-acquired Infections
Patients enter healthcare systems and hospitals to maintain their health, prevent disease, and receive care and treatment from injuries or illness, but no one expects to become more injured, nor sicker, while in the care of these health systems. To ‘do no harm’ is a foundational phrase to all …
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Burden, Etiology and Control of Hospital Acquired Infections in Intensive Care Units in Vietnam
Hospital acquired infection (HAI) is one of the most frequent adverse event in healthcare worldwide, affecting hundreds of millions of patients annually. In both developed and developing countries, this burden falls mainly on the critically ill. In Vietnam, HAI data are limited, particularly from …
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Synthesis and antibacterial evaluation of diverse small molecules
Hospital-acquired infections are the most frequent adverse event in healthcare delivery worldwide. Seven in ten hospital-acquired infections exhibit resistance to at least one antibiotic, and three in five doctors have encountered an infection unresponsive to any treatment at all. This prolongs …
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Infection Control: Reducing Hospital Acquired Central Line Bloodstream Infections
<p>Hospital-acquired infections are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in neonatal intensive care units (Ceballos, Waterman, Hulett, & Makic, 2013). It’s estimated that each neonatal bloodstream infection costs about $35,000 and adds about two weeks to a baby’s hospital stay (Akron's …
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The Effectiveness of a Central Line Care and Maintenance Bundle to Promote Consistency and Compliance in Central Line Care
<p>Catheter related blood stream infections, also known as CRBSIs, are one of the many preventable hospital acquired infections. CRBSIs directly affect mortality rate among hospitalized patients across the nation. Traditionally, the focus has been on preventing CRBSIs during central line insertion …
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Acquired infections in paediatric patients after cardiac surgery
Introduction: Hospital acquired infections (HAIs) are an important cause of morbidity and mortality following paediatric cardiac surgery. Aim: To determine the incidence, risk factors for and outcome of postoperative HAIs in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) of the Red Cross War Memorial …
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Most Effective Nursing Interventions to Prevent Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections: A Critical Review of the Literature
Nosocomial infections, otherwise referred to as hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), are defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as infections that occur in association with devices used in medical procedures, such as catheters or ventilators (Centers for Disease Control and …
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Increasing Chlorhexidine (CHG) Daily Bathing Compliance
<p>Chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) daily bathing in hospitalized patients in the intensive care setting is one of many interventions implemented by institutions to reduce and prevent central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) and catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). …
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CNL as Educator in the Emergency Department: Improving Hand Hygiene Outcomes
<p>Prevention of hospital acquired infections (HAI) is a National Patient Safety Goal. Proper and frequent hand hygiene (HH) prevents HAI and various cross-infections in any setting. Audits of visual adherence for HH generates low compliance scores. During a yearlong improvement project, low …
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Visualizing the attack of bacteria by the antimicrobial peptide human defensin 5
Bacterial infections are a major cause of concern in healthcare because of a rise in antibiotic-resistant bacteria and an increase in hospital-acquired infections. In order to combat bacterial infections, we need fundamental understanding of the host-pathogen interaction. As a part of the innate …
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Towards in vivo editing of the human microbiome
… tempering host autoimmunity, and combating hospital-acquired infections and enteric diseases.
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Chlorhexidine Gluconate Bathing in Hospitalized Patients: Reducing Barriers and Increasing Compliance Rate
… is one of many measures used to help reduce hospital-acquired infections (HAI) at the 30-bed, Medical-Surgical Specialties and Palliative Care Unit. CHG bathing compliance rate for the unit for the week of August 14-20 was 82.9%, with a 40.4% refusal rate. This is below the 90% desired …
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Implementing Ways to Reduce Catheter-associated Urinary Infections (CAUTIs)
… (CDC), estimates that 40% of all Urinary Tract Infections (UTIs) are related to Hospital-acquired Infections (HAIs) (CDC, 2013). The Facility where the project was done consists of oncology, orthopedic, medical-surgical, telemetry, incentive care, and step-down units. This hospital with 242 …
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Determining the Structure and Activity of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Protein, Ivyp2
… pathogen accounts for approximately 10% of all hospital-acquired infections in the United States and contains a number of virulence factors that aid in its ability to infect and colonize immunocompromised individuals and those with cystic fibrosis. One of these factors – inhibitor of vertebrate …
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Dynamic risk adjustment of prediction models using statistical process control methods
… neonatal physiology (SNAP II) that predicts in-hospital mortality, have been well validated on several large populations. However, the performance profile of such models in the midst of changing predictor-outcome relationships or newly appearing outcome predictors have not been well studied. We …
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Developing and Evaluating Effective Interventions to Reduce Healthcare-Associated Infection in A Resource-Limited Hospital in Thailand
The burden of disease due to hospital-acquired infections in developing countries is poorly quantified. Moreover, hand hygiene compliance (amongst the most effective control measures) is often low and high quality research into how to improve it is largely lacking outside high income settings. I …
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Novel collective prey evasion response of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 to soil micropredator Myxococcus xanthus DK1622
… nosocomial pathogen responsible for 10% of all hospital acquired infections. <em>P. aeruginosa</em> is also an ESKAPE pathogen, which are leading causes of nosocomial infections throughout the world, and they are often multi-drug resistant. When standardized spots of micropredator <em>Myxococcus …
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Carriage rate of staphylococcus aureusamong healthcare workers at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka
Staphylococcus aureus is a frequent cause of hospital-acquired infections worldwide. The carriage of S. aureus among healthcare workers has been associated with transmission of the bacterium to susceptible patients. The aim of this study was to determine the carriage rate, antimicrobial …
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Carriage rate of staphylococcus aureusamong healthcare workers at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka
Staphylococcus aureus is a frequent cause of hospital-acquired infections worldwide. The carriage of S. aureus among healthcare workers has been associated with transmission of the bacterium to susceptible patients. The aim of this study was to determine the carriage rate, antimicrobial …
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Public health surveillance systems "Evidence informing practice"
… system. The second study investigated a hospital-acquired infection, C. difficile and is an example of surveillance in a high-risk setting such as a hospital. This research demonstrates the need for continued vigilance to be maintained when monitoring hospital-acquired infections and …
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