Background Compliance with hand hygiene (HH) practices remains a major challenge in
preventing healthcare-associated infections (HCAI). Little is known whether self-reported HH …

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) result in millions of avoidable deaths or prolonged
lengths of stay in hospitals and cause huge economic loss to health systems and …

Background Compliance with guidelines on hand hygiene (HH) is pivotal to prevent and
control health-care associated infections and contributes to mitigating antimicrobial …

Hand hygiene is the most important intervention for preventing healthcare-associated
infections and can reduce preventable morbidity and mortality. We described the changes in …

PURPOSE Infection prevention among children with cancer is a major challenge at Children
Hospital Lahore (CHL), a public health care facility in Pakistan with 1,000 new pediatric …

Homo sapiens are enjoying a better-quality life for the last seven to eight decades because
of the invention of antimicrobials that have successfully treated many bacterial, viral, fungal …

Hospitals play a critical role in managing and improving health status and well-being of
individuals worldwide [1]. For the first time, in 1952, the term intensive-care unit (ICU) was …

Early identifying patients whose clinical conditions and personal characteristics could led to
a higher risk of adverse outcomes in Intensive Care Unit (ICU), still represent a challenge in …

O curso de Segurança do Paciente e Qualidade em Serviços de Saúde foi desenvolvido
pela Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (Anvisa), em parceria com a Universidade de …