Compliance to empirical contact precautions for multidrug-resistant microorganisms.


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:
07 2020
Historique:
received: 15 07 2019
revised: 02 10 2019
accepted: 03 10 2019
pubmed: 18 11 2019
medline: 25 6 2021
entrez: 18 11 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Health care-associated infections impact patient morbidity and mortality, and institutions adopt evidence-based measures to prevent and control such infections. In this study, professionals were observed during patient care under empirical contact precautions. A total of 243 observations were performed in which 39.5% complied with all measures. The positivity rate of surveillance cultures was 38.36%, and adherence to the measures in patients with colonization was 43.1%.

Identifiants

pubmed: 31733810
pii: S0196-6553(19)30895-8
doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2019.10.004
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

840-842

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2019 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Auteurs

Glaucia Dias Arriero (GD)

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Hospital Geral de Pedreira, Associação Paulista para o Desenvolvimento da Medicina, São Paulo, Brazil. Electronic address: glaucia.arriero@gmail.com.

Mônica Taminato (M)

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

Denise Miyuki Kusahara (DM)

Escola Paulista de Enfermagem, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

Dayana Fram (D)

Serviço de Controle de Infecção Hospitalar, Hospital São Paulo, Disciplina de Infectologia, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

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