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Prevention of hospital-acquired infections: review of non-pharmacological interventions
Hospital-acquired (nosocomial) infections (HAIs) increase morbidity, mortality and medical costs. In the USA alone, nosocomial infections cause about 1.7 million infections and 99 000 deaths per year. HAIs are spread by numerous routes including surfaces (especially hands), air, water, intravenous r...
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The Hospital Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7172535/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18513830 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2008.03.018 |
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description | Hospital-acquired (nosocomial) infections (HAIs) increase morbidity, mortality and medical costs. In the USA alone, nosocomial infections cause about 1.7 million infections and 99 000 deaths per year. HAIs are spread by numerous routes including surfaces (especially hands), air, water, intravenous routes, oral routes and through surgery. Interventions such as proper hand and surface cleaning, better nutrition, sufficient numbers of nurses, better ventilator management, use of coated urinary and central venous catheters and use of high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters have all been associated with significantly lower nosocomial infection rates. Multiple infection control techniques and strategies simultaneously (‘bundling’) may offer the best opportunity to reduce the morbidity and mortality toll of HAIs. Most of these infection control strategies will more than pay for themselves by saving the medical costs associated with nosocomial infections. Many non-pharmacological interventions to prevent many HAIs will also reduce the need for long or multiple-drug antibiotic courses for patients. Lower antibiotic drug usage will reduce risk of antibiotic-resistant organisms and should improve efficacy of antibiotics given to patients who do acquire infections. |
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spelling | pubmed-71725352020-04-22 Prevention of hospital-acquired infections: review of non-pharmacological interventions Curtis, L.T. J Hosp Infect Article Hospital-acquired (nosocomial) infections (HAIs) increase morbidity, mortality and medical costs. In the USA alone, nosocomial infections cause about 1.7 million infections and 99 000 deaths per year. HAIs are spread by numerous routes including surfaces (especially hands), air, water, intravenous routes, oral routes and through surgery. Interventions such as proper hand and surface cleaning, better nutrition, sufficient numbers of nurses, better ventilator management, use of coated urinary and central venous catheters and use of high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters have all been associated with significantly lower nosocomial infection rates. Multiple infection control techniques and strategies simultaneously (‘bundling’) may offer the best opportunity to reduce the morbidity and mortality toll of HAIs. Most of these infection control strategies will more than pay for themselves by saving the medical costs associated with nosocomial infections. Many non-pharmacological interventions to prevent many HAIs will also reduce the need for long or multiple-drug antibiotic courses for patients. Lower antibiotic drug usage will reduce risk of antibiotic-resistant organisms and should improve efficacy of antibiotics given to patients who do acquire infections. The Hospital Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2008-07 2008-06-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7172535/ /pubmed/18513830 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2008.03.018 Text en Copyright © 2008 The Hospital Infection Society. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active. |
spellingShingle | Article Curtis, L.T. Prevention of hospital-acquired infections: review of non-pharmacological interventions |
title | Prevention of hospital-acquired infections: review of non-pharmacological interventions |
title_full | Prevention of hospital-acquired infections: review of non-pharmacological interventions |
title_fullStr | Prevention of hospital-acquired infections: review of non-pharmacological interventions |
title_full_unstemmed | Prevention of hospital-acquired infections: review of non-pharmacological interventions |
title_short | Prevention of hospital-acquired infections: review of non-pharmacological interventions |
title_sort | prevention of hospital-acquired infections: review of non-pharmacological interventions |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7172535/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18513830 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2008.03.018 |
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