Compliance with standard precautions: Results of a French national audit.

Background: Standard precautions (SPs) aim to reduce the risk of cross-transmission of microorganisms. The objectives of the present study were to assess institutional policies for SPs promotion, available resources for SPs implementation, and education of health care workers (HCWs) and their compliance with SPs.

Methods: A multisite mixed-methods audit was conducted in 2011.

Pre-operative skin preparation practices: results of the 2007 French national assessment.

Background: Pre-operative skin preparation, aimed at reducing the endogenous microbial flora, is one of the main preventive measures employed to decrease the likelihood of surgical site infection. National recommendations on pre-operative management of infection risks were issued in France in 2004.

Aim: To assess compliance with the French national guidelines for pre-operative skin preparation in 2007.

[Consumption of hand-hygiene products in health establishments in the west of France].

Objectives: The study had for aim to investigate hand hygiene product use in French hospitals between 2000 and 2003.

Design: A questionnaire was sent in 2002 and 2 more in 2003 and 2004 (for 2000 to 2003) requiring data on type of hospital, number of beds, staff members, admissions and patient-day, litres of mild soap, antiseptic soap and alcohol-based rub used and price per litre. Indices were calculated accordingly.