Impact of COVID-19 on hospital acquired infections

While there are established and effective guidelines for prevention of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on those implemented practices and policies have not been thoroughly investigated. This report examines the impact of COVID-19 on HAI rates at 2 hospitals w...

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Autores principales: Halverson, Thomas, Mikolajczak, Anessa, Mora, Nallely, Silkaitis, Christina, Stout, Savanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8898089/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35259412
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.02.030
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description While there are established and effective guidelines for prevention of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on those implemented practices and policies have not been thoroughly investigated. This report examines the impact of COVID-19 on HAI rates at 2 hospitals within the same healthcare system. HAIs significantly increased during the COVID-19 pandemic which correlated with the use of overtime and agency nursing hours.
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spelling pubmed-88980892022-03-07 Impact of COVID-19 on hospital acquired infections Halverson, Thomas Mikolajczak, Anessa Mora, Nallely Silkaitis, Christina Stout, Savanna Am J Infect Control Brief Report While there are established and effective guidelines for prevention of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on those implemented practices and policies have not been thoroughly investigated. This report examines the impact of COVID-19 on HAI rates at 2 hospitals within the same healthcare system. HAIs significantly increased during the COVID-19 pandemic which correlated with the use of overtime and agency nursing hours. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-07 2022-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8898089/ /pubmed/35259412 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2022.02.030 Text en © 2022 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. 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.
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