Prior to the audit, hospice staff had assumed that the rates of compliance for infection control approached 100%. This article shows that a good quality audit tool can be used to identify areas of shortfall in infection control and the effectiveness of putting in place an action plan followed ...
A cross-sectional audit tool was developed from existing policies and national guidelines. Stratified random sampling was undertaken and 961 audits were distributed proportionately to differing groups of healthcare workers from within one UK NHS hospital; 411 audits were returned giving a 43% response ...
Different NHS Trusts dealt with the incident in differing ways. Those which had not yet been infected (such as University College London Hospitals), rapidly closed down the currently understood attack vectors (such as email). Those that had been infected (such as The Royal Berkshire Hospital) im...
One of the most important points when considering infection prevention and control guidelines is the issue of ‘standard precautions’. What do we apply to every patient, every time? As you can see from Figure 1 below, ‘standard precautions’ is far from standardized. This is problematic when ...
The null hypothesis being tested is that the non-antibiotic treatment (methenamine hippurate) is inferior to the standard treatment of an extended course of prophylactic antibiotic for the prevention of rUTI in women and less cost-effective to the NHS. The alternative hypothesis is that methenamine ...
National Hand Hygiene NHS Cam- paign. Compliance with Hand Hygiene – Audit Report. Glasgow, Scotland: Health Protection Scotland; 2010. Available from: http:// www.documents.hps.scot.nhs.uk/hai/infection-control/national-hand- hygiene-campaign/audit-report-2009-05-06.pdf. Accessed December...
PACO: population assessment control outcome diabetes-related LIST OF RECOMMENDATIONS 1a. Diagnose a soft tissue diabetes-related infection clinically, based on the presence of local or systemic signs and symptoms of inflammation. (GRADE recommendation: Strong...
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Orthopaedic surgical site infection surveillance in NHS England: national audit of current practice. Bone Joint J 2017;99- B:171-4.Tissingh EK,Sudlow A,Jones A,et al.Orthopaedic surgical site infection surveillance in NHS England:national audit of current practice[J].Bone Joint J,2017,99-B(...
(NH) in Spain. This is a retrospective analytical cohort analysis using a multifaceted approach based on the normalization process theory to improve healthcare quality provided by nursing staff in 34 NHs in Spain. In this study, we present the results of the first audit including 719 UTI cases...