Staff-developed infection prevention program decreases health care-associated infection rates in pediatric critical care

Yousef I. Aljeesh; Naeem Alkariri; Said Abusalem; John A. Myers; Fawwaz Alaloul

doi:10.1097/NCQ.0000000000000079

Staff-developed infection prevention program decreases health care-associated infection rates in pediatric critical care

Yousef I. Aljeesh, Naeem Alkariri, Said Abusalem^*, John A. Myers, Fawwaz Alaloul

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Abstract

The health care team identified the causes of health care-associated infections (HAI) and developed interventions in a pediatric intensive care unit in Gaza. A quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design was used. All 26 full-time staff members in the pediatric intensive care unit participated. The HAI rate decreased significantly from the first to the second year following the implementation of the intervention (208 vs 120.55, odds ratio: 3.21, 95% confidence interval: 1.87-5.11; P < .001).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	71-76
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of Nursing Care Quality
Volume	30
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1097/NCQ.0000000000000079
Publication status	Published - Dec 11 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Hai prevention
Health care associated infections
Infection control
Pediatric icu

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General Nursing

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