ArticleJournal of family medicine and primary care2021
Prevention of hospital-acquired infections: A construct during Covid-19 pandemic.
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- Impact of COVID-19 on the prevalence of multi-drug-resistant bacteria: a literature review and meta-analysis.Antonie van Leeuwenhoek · 2025Pooled it
- Comparison of surgical site infection in pediatric patients using NSQIP-P data during COVID-19 pandemic and non-pandemic periods.Pediatric surgery international · 2025Article
- Impact of COVID-19 on nurse staffing levels and healthcare-associated infections in medical institutions: a retrospective cohort study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Drug delivery system based on an antibacterial layer-by-layer coating on urinary catheters: an experimental and simulation approach.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025Article
- Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) impact on central-line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI): a systematic review.Infection prevention in practice · 2023Review
- The incidence of nosocomial bloodstream infection and urinary tract infection in Australian hospitals before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time series study.Antimicrobial resistance and infection control · 2023Article
- Effect of the Pandemic Outbreak on ICU-Associated Infections and Antibiotic Prescription Trends in Non-COVID19 Acute Respiratory Failure Patients.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on nosocomial multidrug-resistant bacterial bloodstream infections and antibiotic consumption in a tertiary care hospital.GMS hygiene and infection control · 2022Article
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Abstract
introductionHospital-acquired infection (HAI) rates were reported to have declined in healthcare settings during the Covid-19 pandemic. Needless to mention that HAI is of paramount interest and relevance to a primary care physician who need to care from womb to tomb inside pandemic.
objectivesThis study was conducted to find the impact of Covid-19 pandemic on the four parameters of HAIs, namely, catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), central-line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI), ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and surgical site infections (SSIs) with hand hygiene compliance rates among healthcare workers. MATERIALS AND
methodsThis retrospective data mining was undertaken in a 700 bed multispecialty teaching hospital in the Eastern India which was a Government of Bihar approved speciality Covid Care Hospital. Data from the monthly routine infection control monitoring and surveillance activities was collated from January 2019 to December 2020. Control charts with upper and lower control limit set at mean ± 1 SD were used to monitor monthly trends of HAIs.
resultsThe CAUTI rates reduced by 28.01%; the CLABSI rates declined by 37.61%, the SSI rates reduced by 62.39%, while the highest VAP rates were reported in November 2019 (1.9 per 1000 ventilator days). The hand hygiene compliance rates from January 2019 to December 2020 among different healthcare staffs showed a sharply rising trend.
conclusionCovid-19 pandemic highlighted paramount importance regarding compliance to hand hygiene and implementation of standard infection control practices as recommended by World Health Organisation and Centres for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC), which can drastically reduce range of HAIs.
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