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Have you ever been admitted to the hospital for surgery or illness? Have you ever caught an infection unrelated to your surgery or illness? If so, you have been the victim of a nosocomial infection also known as hospital-acquired infections.
C. difficile, MRSA (methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus), are well known, but there are many others.
Do you know that you have more chances to die from a nosocomial infection than from a car accident?
Every year in Quebec, 90 000 people are afflicted by these infections and, of that number, 4000 die immediately.
A minimum of 50% of these infections could be avoided by better prevention and control measures such as strict hand hygiene.
Nosocomial infections are also very costly to the health system. On average they cost 180 millions dollars yearly.
By joining ADVIN you contribute to the promotion of safe care and quality hospitals.
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Written by Christine Besson
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Tuesday, 07 August 2007 |
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 The Québec
campaign is expanding with 4 new interventions added to the 6th initial
(2005)
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following are related to the prevention of HAI (Nosocomial infections are
better known under the name of Hospital Acquired Infections)
- Guidelines to
prevent harm from antibiotic resistance organism
- Surgery
site infection prevention
- Ventilator
associated pneumonia prevention
- Central
line infection prevention
17 hospital
teams are already participating in this campaign associated to the Canadian campaign.
Let's hope
that more are going to join in soon!
The Québec campaing is associated to the campaign initiated by the Canadian Institute for Patients' Safety.
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Written by Christine Besson
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Sunday, 10 June 2007 |
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 The latest data compiled by the
Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council show that more than 19 000
hospitalized patients are victims of an infection - Pennsylavania population average 11 millions.Costs related
to these infections are very substancial:
For patients with a nosocomial infection:
compared to 2.3% for patients who did not
acquire infections.
- Average hospital stay: 20.6 days
Compared to 4.5 for other patients
Compared to 31,389 for other patients
These data are very conservative,
considering that not all hospitals were involved in reporting their infection
rate. PHC4 also noticed that the data compilation was more accurate for
hospitals using an electronic system or reporting.
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Written by Christine Besson
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Sunday, 27 May 2007 |
.jpg "chambre h(1).jpg") Yes, nosocomial infections (NI's) can be prevented and it is imperative that we establish a zero-tolerance policy for substandard and unsafe health care. A campaign recently launched in Quebec entitled "Together we can improve patient safety [1]" demonstrates this point. The campaign was initiated by the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Montréal (CHUM) at a conference held on March 27 th and March 28th, 2007, and brought together over three hundred participants from Quebec, Canada, the USA and Europe. Thirty teams representing fifteen different health care organizations are participating in this campaign and ANVIN is one of the partners.
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Written by Christine Besson
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Monday, 05 February 2007 |
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MRSA, used to be a
hospital-acquired infection not long ago. The bacteria has migrated into the
community with greater risks for any one to catch it. A good hygiene remains
your best protection.
As Dr John Conly (Canadian Medical Association Journal) describes it, "an
old foe with new fangs." - It starts like a spider bite or a pimple and becomes
rapidly an infection with pus. It may
develop into a more serious even life threatening infection if it gets into the
blood or bones. Some strains are extremely virulent . It is spread through
close physical contact with an infected person or by touching things
contaminated by the bacteria such as clothes, pieces of equipment etc. The
bacteria (Staphylococcus aureus resistant to methicilin) can live on the skin
and survive on objects for 24 hours or even longer.
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Written by Christine Besson
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Thursday, 01 February 2007 |
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Patient safety requires commitment from all levels of an organization. While
executives foster a safety culture and establish clear goals and metrics for the
organization, the day-to-day execution is the responsibility of frontline
managers who direct resources at the "sharp end" of care. In order to ensure
that quality and safety are a top priority, these managers need the tools and
understanding of patient safety to lead the work at their institutions.
Seminar at Cambridge, MA - February 12-13, 2007
For more information on this seminar organized by IHI, visit the site http://www.ihi.org/IHI/Programs/ConferencesAndTraining/ImplementingSafety
StrategiesAsAFrontlineManager.htm
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