Publications by authors named "C Bedosti"
Background: In the context of Infections Prevention and Control activities, the training of healthcare-associated infection control figures is crucial; the COVID-19 pandemic further emphasized the necessity of ensuring a widespread and stable level of skills over time for such professionals. The present work aims to identify the number and training needs of the personnel working in the Emilia-Romagna Region's healthcare facilities as "healthcare-associated infection control figures".
Methods: Data were collected through a survey created by experts from the Regional Group "Training in the prevention and control of antibiotic resistance".
Introduction: Residents of long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are a population at high risk of developing severe healthcare associated infections (HAIs). In the assessment of HAIs in acute-care hospitals, selection bias can occur due to cases being over-represented: patients developing HAIs usually have longer lengths of stays compared to controls, and therefore have an increased probability of being sampled in PPS, leading to an overestimation of HAI prevalence. Our hypothesis was that in LTCFs, the opposite may occur: residents developing HAIs either may have a greater chance of being transferred to acute-care facilities or of dying, and therefore could be under-represented in PPS, leading to an underestimation of HAI prevalence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: Prevalence surveys are mostly used in European countries for infection surveillance in long-term care facilities (LTCFs). The purpose of this paper is to document the prevalence of infections in LTCFs and to identify and discuss the potential sources of variation in the overall prevalence of infections.
Methods: Six repeated prevalence surveys were carried out over a period of 3 years in 11 LTCFs in the Emilia-Romagna region, involving a mean of 812 residents in each survey.