Improvement of knowledge, attitude, and behavior about oral health in a population of alcohol addicted persons.

Aims: To improve knowledge, attitude, and behavior about oral health and oral cancer prevention in a population of alcohol-addicted persons involved in a residential rehabilitation program in Italy.

Methods: A questionnaire was administered to obtain socioeconomic and oral risk factors data, and a complete dental examination was performed. A lecture on oral health risk factors and healthy behaviors was delivered.

Surgical site infections: might a longer locally defined T time affect the benchmarking?

Background: A local surgical site infection surveillance system (LS System) was established in 1998 at our teaching hospital. The aims of this article were to compare locally defined cut-points with the NNIS System T times, and to evaluate the effectiveness of different cut-points in identifying procedures at high risk for infection.

Methods: The LS System T times were compared to those reported by the NNIS System.

Cluster of Pseudomonas aeruginosa catheter-related bloodstream infections traced to contaminated multidose heparinized saline solutions in a medical ward.

Intravascular catheters are indispensable in modern medical practice; healthcare institutions purchase millions of them each year. The present study describes an outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa catheter-related bloodstream infection (CRBSI) in a medical ward of the associated hospitals, a teaching hospital with 1005 beds, in Ancona, Italy, with details of the source of infection and the efficacy of the control measures adopted. The environmental strain of P.

Microbial aerosol contamination of dental healthcare workers' faces and other surfaces in dental practice.

The purpose of this study was to focus attention on the need to adopt infection control procedures in dentistry. The quantitative and qualitative bacterial contamination of dental healthcare workers' faces and other surfaces in dental practice was determined. Oral fluids become aerosolized during dentistry and oral microbes have been used as the markers of their spread that may carry blood-borne pathogens.