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Infection prevention and control in Belgian nursing homes: knowledge, attitudes and practices of general practitioners at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Publication Type: Scientific poster, presentation or proceeding Authors: Laure Mortgat; Elisabeth Miller; Els Duysburgh; François Kidd Source: ECCMID 2022 (2022) Health Topics: Healthcare-associated infection Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Zorginfectie I ...
Genomic epidemiology of emerging ESBL-producing Kentucky in Europe.
Routine surveillance at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) detected cases with a ciprofloxacin-resistant. Kentucky with the ESBL-gene. Ensuing research identified 78 cases in ...
Antimicrobial use in European long-term care facilities: results from the third point prevalence survey of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use, 2016 to 2017
Centre for Disease Prevention and Control initiated point prevalence surveys (PPS) of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in European LTCF s, performed by external contractors as the ...
Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis
2015 data that was country-corrected for population coverage. We multiplied the number of bloodstream infections (BSI s) by a conversion factor derived from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and ...
Point Prevalence Study of Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Use in Belgian Acute-Care Hospitals: Results of the ECDC PPS 2017
Background: In 2011, the first European point prevalence study (PPS) of antimicrobial use and healthcare-associated infections (HAI s) was organised by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control ...
National Surveillance of Infections acquired in Intensive Care Units: Annual Report 2015
and process parameters for the prevention of infection. Health Topics: Résistance aux antimicrobiens (AMR) Antimicrobiële resistentie (AMR) Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Service: Infections liées aux ...
Belgian hand hygiene campaigns in ICU, 2005-2015.
Healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) are still a major problem especially in most intensive care units (ICU). Incompliance by clinical staff with hand hygiene (HH) increases rates of preventable infections. We report ...
Poor adherence to guidelines for preventing central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI): results of a worldwide survey.
intensive care units Preventive practices Surveillance Abstract: BACKGROUND: Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) are a cause of increased morbidity and mortality, and are largely ...
Resultaten van de 6e nationale campagne ter bevordering van de handhygiëne in ziekenhuizen, 2014-2015
over 111,000 (95% confidence interval 73,556-159,292) infected patients in this setting [2]. Hand hygiene (HH) compliance has been recognised as the most important factor in preventing transmission of ...
Falciparum malaria molecular drug resistance in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a systematic review.
available. Monitoring drug resistance is essential for early detection and subsequent prevention of the spread of drug resistance by timely changes of treatment policy. This review was performed to gather all ...