Prevalence survey on catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) in public hospitals in Hong Kong 2018.

We conducted a survey of 16,914 patients to determine the point prevalence of healthcare-associated catheter-associated urinary tract infection (HA-CAUTI) and urinary catheter care in public hospitals in Hong Kong. Overall HA-CAUTI prevalence was 0.27%.

Effectiveness of antimicrobial hospital curtains on reducing bacterial contamination-A multicenter study.

Objective: To determine the efficacy of 2 types of antimicrobial privacy curtains in clinical settings and the costs involved in replacing standard curtains with antimicrobial curtains.

Design: A prospective, open-labeled, multicenter study with a follow-up duration of 6 months.

Setting: This study included 12 rooms of patients with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) (668 patient bed days) and 10 cubicles (8,839 patient bed days) in the medical, surgical, neurosurgical, orthopedics, and rehabilitation units of 10 hospitals.

Clinical features and molecular epidemiology of plasmid-mediated DHA-type AmpC β-lactamase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae blood culture isolates, Hong Kong.

Knowledge of risk factors and clinical characteristics of bacteraemia caused by plasmid-mediated AmpC β-lactamase (pAmpC)-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae (pAmpC-Kp) is not well described. This was a retrospective cohort study of patients with K. pneumoniae bacteraemia in three Hong Kong regional hospitals.