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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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SAFER HEALTH CARE IN QUÉBEC |
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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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