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ON May 23rd, 2008, the French Ministry of Health launched a national hand cleanliness campaign targeting health care workers, patients, and the general public. The campaign emphasizes that proper hand hygiene is the key element in preventing and controlling nosocomial infections.
It is critical that a through cleansing of one’s hands with a liquid alcohol solution containing an emollient to protect the skin precedes all health care treatments, no matter where they are carried out. All health care establishments throughout the country should see to it that these solutions are available at patient’s bed. Health care workers would also be required to carry a small bottle of disinfectant in the pockets of their uniform. |
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Written by Christine Besson
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Tuesday, 10 January 2006 |
![](<img src="http://advin.org/english/images/stories/bactéries diverses.jpg" align="left" hspace="6" alt="Image" />)    Here are some sobering statistics to ponder:
•An extensive study by HealthGrades, a leading health-care quality rating organization, reported that 194,000 people died in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 from preventable medical errors in American hospitals.
•The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that 90,000 deaths per year resulted from hospital-acquired infections. This adds more than $5 billion to the nation's health-care costs, according to the CDC.
If the CDC listed hospital-acquired infections in their statistics on leading causes of death in America, it would be ahead of diabetes, pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease. |
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Wednesday, 04 January 2006 |
 As reported in the latest issue of Journal of Infectious Diseases ( January 15, 2006), MRSA is a growing problem in the United-States. About 2 millions people carry this bacteria in their nose as estimated by the CDC (Center for Diseases Control- Atlanta).
New antibiotics are needed to tackle this bacteria that may cause severe damages. But new antibiotics even if necessary creates new problems –
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Friday, 25 November 2005 |
 Since 2002, an established nosocomial pathogen, has recently emerged as an important cause of skin and soft tissue infections among patients who have not been hospitalized. These community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) infections have frequently been identified through outbreak investigations affecting athletes, inmates, military recruits, colleges etc.
Skin infections such as abscesses and boils are the most common forms of this infection. The infected area usually starts out as a small bump resembling a pimple or spider bite, which becomes redder and often develops pus
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Sunday, 13 November 2005 |
 By simply clicking their mouses, Floridians can now access hospital statistics which will inform them of a given institution's rate of infection.
Patients might now decide to avoid certain hospitals where there is a higher risk of getting sicker. The stigma of being blacklisted might push certain hospitals to take the necessary measures to deal with hospital acquired infections.
Florida state enacted a law in July 2004, which allowed publication of these statistics on the internet as early as 2005.
The same law was passed in New York state, but New Yorkers will have to be patient (or avoid being patients) since on-line statistics will not be available until 2008.
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Sunday, 13 November 2005 |
 Cleveland hospitals have agreed to report C.difficile infections in January. The highly toxic strain of C. diff. that killed thousands of patients in Canada and some other American states has invaded the Cleveland area and also some other hospitals outside Cleveland.
Dr N. Blair, director of the Ohio Department of Health, refused to discuss the situation and how hospitals would respond to the threat.
The state of Ohio has not yet voted a law obliging its hospitals to report infections. There is still a debate on how to collect and report infection data.
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