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Evaluation of Nosocomial Infection Control Programs in health services
- Source :
- Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem, Vol 23, Iss 1, Pp 98-105 (2015)
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- Universidade de São Paulo, 2015.
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Abstract
- OBJECTIVES: to evaluate the Nosocomial Infection Control Programs in hospital institutions regarding structure and process indicators.METHOD: this is a descriptive, exploratory and quantitative study conducted in 2013. The study population comprised 13 Nosocomial Infection Control Programs of health services in a Brazilian city of the state of São Paulo. Public domain instruments available in the Manual of Evaluation Indicators of Nosocomial Infection Control Practices were used.RESULTS: The indicators with the highest average compliance were "Evaluation of the Structure of the Nosocomial Infection Control Programs" (75%) and "Evaluation of the Epidemiological Surveillance System of Nosocomial Infection" (82%) and those with the lowest mean compliance scores were "Evaluation of Operational Guidelines" (58.97%) and "Evaluation of Activities of Control and Prevention of Nosocomial Infection" (60.29%).CONCLUSION: The use of indicators identified that, despite having produced knowledge about prevention and control of nosocomial infections, there is still a large gap between the practice and the recommendations.
Details
- Language :
- English, Spanish; Castilian, Portuguese
- ISSN :
- 15188345 and 01041169
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.5d1ab41152e4f259626c98debcf252b
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1590/0104-1169.0113.2530