Evaluation of the contribution of isolation precautions in prevention and control of multi-resistant bacteria in a teaching hospital

A systematic review of the evidence for interventions for the prevention and control of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (1996–2004): report to the Joint MRSA Working Party (Subgroup A)

“…Compliance with the use of contact isolation materials (gloves, antiseptic soap) was assessed in six randomly selected wards. 15 A questionnaire study to determine the association between nosocomial MRSA infection rates and ICU structure and process parameters was conducted using the German nosocomial surveillance network. 16 Only those centres that had participated in the surveillance system for more than four months were surveyed.…”

Control of endemic MRSA—what is the evidence? A personal view

“…54 Conversely, control measures not including decolonization maintained the rate of nosocomial transmission at low levels in one uncontrolled study 55 and significantly reduced rates of infection and carriage in two others. 56,57 In an uncontrolled trial of intra-nasal mupirocin in MRSA carriers on a digestive disease unit, good initial eradication was demonstrated, but over one quarter became recolonized after the first treatment and over two thirds after the second and third. There was also appearance of high-level mupirocin resistance.…”

Determining The Professional And Organizational Factors In Nurses’ Compliance With Isolation Precautions

“…Hastanın bakım ve tedavisinden sorumlu hemşirelerin enfeksiyon kontrol önlemlerine uyumu güvenli ve kaliteli sağlık hizmeti açısından son derece gereklidir (22) . Halcomb ve arkadaşlarının (2) yaptığı sistematik incelemede, hemşirelerin izolasyon önlemelerine uyumunu değerlendiren çalışmaların sınırlı sayıda (15,(23)(24)(25) olduğu belirtilmektedir. Ülkemizde de izolasyon önlemlerine uyumun incelendiği kısıtlı sayıda çalışma bulunmakta (9,14,21,22) bu çalışmalarda da izolasyonun alt boyutları olan bulaşma yolu, çalışan-hasta güvenliği, çevre kontrolü ve el hijyeni-eldiven kullanımı puan ortalamalarını kurumsal ve mesleki olarak etkileyen faktörlerin ortaya konulmadığı görülmektedir.…”