Costs associated with COVID-19 in healthcare personnel in Greece: a cost-of-illness analysis
Healthcare personnel (HCP) are at increased risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Healthcare personnel (HCP) are at increased risk for SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Contamination of wastewater systems in healthcare settings with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) represents a significant challenge to healthcare providers. In the past decade there has been…
Guidelines for preoperative skin antisepsis recommend using chlorhexidine in an alcohol-based solution. However, other antiseptics such as aqueous povidone iodine or alcohol-based solutions are still…
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) World Hand Hygiene Day continues to ‘bring people together and accelerate hand hygiene action at the point of care in…
Antiseptics such as chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) and octenidine dihydrochloride (OCT) are frequently used in hospitals to prevent and control meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) transmission. With…
Infection prevention and control (IPC) professionals are key intermediaries between hospital managers and frontline staff. During the novel coronavirus disease pandemic, IPC professionals faced new…
We aimed to assess the impact of COVID-19 on healthcare associated infection (HAI) transmission and antimicrobial use (AMU) prevalence during the later stages of the…
Smartphones in medical settings pose infection risks due to harbouring pathogenic bacteria. This pilot study assesses the effectiveness duration of sanitisation methods, focusing on 70%…
Mupirocin-based decolonization of Staphylococcus aureus carriers undergoing haemodialysis is not widely implemented due to concerns of mupirocin resistance. In our haemodialysis unit, a strategy combining…
In paediatric intensive care units (PICU), the overall rate of healthcare-associated infections is 18.3 per 1000 patient-days, with gram-negative rods being the predominant causative microorganisms…
Contamination rates reported in the literature for patient-ready flexible endoscopes vary from 0.4% to 49%. Unfortunately, the comparison and interpretation of these results is almost…