Reduction of hospital-acquired infections in the neonatal intensive care unit: A long-term commitment.
Catheter-Related Infections
/ prevention & control
Catheterization, Central Venous
/ adverse effects
Central Venous Catheters
/ adverse effects
Cross Infection
/ prevention & control
Hand Hygiene
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Infection Control
/ methods
Intensive Care Units, Neonatal
/ standards
Quality Improvement
/ organization & administration
Sepsis
/ etiology
CLABSI
Late onset sepsis
Very low birth weight
Journal
American journal of infection control
ISSN: 1527-3296
Titre abrégé: Am J Infect Control
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8004854
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 2019
08 2019
Historique:
received:
04
11
2018
revised:
06
01
2019
accepted:
06
01
2019
pubmed:
10
3
2019
medline:
9
6
2020
entrez:
10
3
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We instituted quality improvement program. We compare the infection rate before (2011-2012) and after (2013-2015). Central line associated blood stream infection episodes decreased from 15.2 to 2.29 episodes per 1000 catheter days (P = .004). We found two major changes, 1. Hand hygiene increased mainly "before aseptic task", from 69.9% to 89.9% and 2. A significant decrease in the length of the catheter use from 5.4 ± 4.5 before to 4.4 ± 2.5 days after the intervention (P = .001).
Identifiants
pubmed: 30850254
pii: S0196-6553(19)30005-7
doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2019.01.001
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1002-1005Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2019 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.