ArticleWorld journal of pediatrics : WJP2017
Impact of relocation and environmental cleaning on reducing the incidence of healthcare-associated infection in NICU.
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- Methicillin-ResistantBioMed research international · 2024Pooled it
- Implementation of infection prevention and control in acute care hospitals in Mainland China - a systematic review.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2019Pooled it
- Climate Change and Nursing Care in Major Chronic Diseases: A Scoping Review of Nursing Perspectives and Roles.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Impact of intensive care unit relocation on the transmission dynamics of carbapenem-resistantFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2026Article
- Relocation of hospital facilities: guidelines for resilient performance.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Extensively and multidrug-resistant bacterial strains: case studies of antibiotics resistance.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Review
- Discordance among Belief, Practice, and the Literature in Infection Prevention in the NICU.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Infection Prevention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.Clinics in perinatology · 2021Review
- Successful Incidences of Controlling Multidrug-Resistant, Extensively Drug-Resistant, and Nosocomial InfectionInfection and drug resistance · 2020Article
- Epidemiology of Methicillin-resistantJournal of global infectious diseasesArticle
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Abstract
backgroundHospital environment remains a risk for healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). This was a prospective study to evaluate the comprehensive impact of relocating a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to a new facility and improved environmental cleaning practice on the presence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on inanimate surfaces and the incident rate of HAIs.
methodsNew environmental cleaning measures were adopted after the NICU was moved to a new and better-designed location. The effect of moving and the new environmental cleaning practice was investigated by comparing the positive number of MRSA on ward surfaces and the incidence density of HAIs between the baseline and intervention periods.
resultsOnly 2.5% of environmental surfaces were positive for MRSA in the intervention period compared to 44.0% in the baseline period (P<0.001). Likewise, the total incident rate of HAIs declined from 16.8 per 1000 cot-days to 10.0 per 1000 cot-days (P<0.001).
conclusionThe comprehensive measures of relocating the NICU to a new facility design with improved environmental cleaning practice are effective and significantly reduce the incidence of HAIs.
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