Patients' Experience and Satisfaction Regarding the Pre-Operative Shower: The PRODOUCH Multicenter Descriptive Survey.

Patients' experience of the pre-operative shower remains poorly assessed in the literature although it is an essential step in the prevention of surgical site infection. For obese patients, a pre-operative shower could be challenging. The goal was to assess patient satisfaction and experience with the process of pre-operative shower, and the effect of obesity status.

General Practitioners' Practice premises and Risk of Viral Cross-Transmission: A French Observational Multicenter Study.

Background: The common areas of general practitioners' practices (eg, reception, secretariat, waiting room, toilets) are places at risk of cross-transmission of viral diseases such as COVID-19, however risk is poorly documented.

Aim: To evaluate the risks of viral cross-transmission in general practitioners' practices based on the organization of the common areas of the premises.

Design And Setting: Cross-sectional multicenter observational study in randomly selected general practitioners' practices in a French department (Seine-Maritime).

Totally implanted venous access-associated adverse events in oncology: Results from a prospective 1-year surveillance programme.

Introduction: During the last decade, most studies on totally implanted venous access-associated adverse events (TIVA-AE) were conducted retrospectively and/or were based on a limited sample size. The aim of our survey was two-fold: to estimate the incidence of TIVA-AE and to identify risk factors in patients with cancer.

Methods: Data from our routine surveillance of TIVA-AE were collected prospectively between October 2009 and January 2011 in two oncology referral centers in Northern France.

Is the Risk of Wound Infection Related to Bilateral Internal Thoracic Artery Graft Potentiated by Age?

Background: Older age and the use of bilateral internal thoracic artery (ITA) grafting are both considered risk factors for surgical wound infection (SWI) after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). The 2014 European Guidelines recommend that bilateral ITA grafting should be considered in patients aged younger than 70 years. Our aim was to investigate interaction between age and the number of ITA grafts.

Morbidity-mortality conference for adverse events associated with totally implanted venous access for cancer chemotherapy.

Purpose: Although considered safer than central venous catheters for administration of cancer chemotherapy, totally implanted venous access (TIVA) is associated with adverse events that may impair prognosis and quality of life of patients receiving chemotherapy. Our aim was to assess the feasibility and interest of surveillance of cancer chemotherapy TIVA-adverse events (AE), associated with morbidity-mortality conferences (MMCs) on TIVA-AE.

Methods: We performed a prospective interventional study in two hospitals (a university hospital and a comprehensive care center).

Surveillance of unplanned return to the operating theatre in neurosurgery combined with a mortality--morbidity conference: results of a pilot survey.

Background: Unplanned return to the operating theatre (UROT) is a useful trigger tool that could be used to identify surgical adverse events (SAEs). The present study describes the feasibility of SAE surveillance in neurosurgical patients, based on UROT identification, completed with SAE analysis at a morbidity-mortality conference (MMC) meeting.

Method: For consecutive patients who underwent a neurosurgical procedure between 1 November 2008 and 30 April 2009, return to the operating theatre (ROT) was identified based on the hospital information system associated to prospective payment (HISPP).

Does an information leaflet about surgical site infection (SSI) improve recollection of information and satisfaction of patients? A randomized trial in patients scheduled for digestive surgery.

Background: A previous study suggested that most surgical patients do not remember having received information about surgical site infection (SSI). In other fields, written information has been suggested to improve patient satisfaction and recollection of information. Our objective was to assess if providing patients with written information about SSI, in addition to oral information, could influence patient satisfaction, recall of information, and opinion regarding SSI.

[Prevalence and socio-health characteristic of hard-core smokers in Haute-Normandie].

Objectives: To measure the prevalence of HCS and determine its socio-health characteristics.

Methods: Subjects (> or = 18 years) included were patients seen in four hospital emergency rooms in Haute-Normandie for a disease requiring ambulatory care. HCS corresponded to the validated definition: did not intend to quit smoking, smoking every day and not having tried to quit during the past five years.