Infection control practice in countries with limited resources.
Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob
; 10: 36, 2011 Oct 22.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22018286
ABSTRACT
Nosocomial infections and their control are a world-wide challenge. The prevalence of nosocomial infections is generally higher in developing countries with limited resources than industrialized countries. In this paper we aimed to further explain the differences with regard to infection control challenges between Turkey, a country with "limited" resources, and the Netherlands, a country with "reasonable" resources. Infrastructure of hospitals, low compliance of hand hygiene, understaffing, overcrowding, heavy workload, misuse of personal protective equipments, late establishment of infection control programme are major problems in limited-resources countries. These problems cause high infection rates and spread of multi-drug resistant pathogens. To improve the control and prevention of infections in countries with limited resources, a multi-facet approach is needed.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Infecção Hospitalar
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Controle de Infecções
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Hospitais
Tipo de estudo:
Risk_factors_studies
Limite:
Humans
País como assunto:
Asia
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Europa
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2011
Tipo de documento:
Article