A multidisciplinary intervention to reduce central line-associated bloodstream infection in pediatrics and neonatal intensive care units.

Background: To date, central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are the most common healthcare-associated infections in high-risk neonates and children. These infections are associated with significantly longer hospital stays, increased health care cost, and mortality in the health care systems. Application of evidence-based preventive interventions has proven to decrease CLABSI rate.

Self-practice among patients with psoriasis: University hospital experience.

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the self-care practices of patients with psoriasis and factors affecting them.

Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 110 adult patients with confirmed diagnosis of psoriasis. Each patient underwent a personal structured interview with the physician using two predetermined questionnaires, one for assessing self-care practices and another for evaluating patients' knowledge of their disease and sociodemographic and clinical features.

Health Care-Associated Infections in a Neurocritical Care Unit of a Developing Country.

Background: Health care-associated infections (HAIs) in intensive care units (ICUs) specialized for neurocritical care (neurocritical care units [NCCUs]) are serious yet preventable complications that contribute significantly to morbidity and mortality worldwide. However, reliable data are scarcely available from the developing world. We aimed to analyze the incidence, epidemiology, microbial etiology, and outcomes of HAIs in an NCCU of a tertiary care teaching hospital in a high-income, developing country.

Risk factors and distribution of MDROs among patients with healthcare associated burn wound infection.

Introduction: Patients with burn wounds are more susceptible to develop healthcare associated (HA) infection. Bacterial isolates from HA burn wound infection vary from one place to the other and also differ in terms of antimicrobial susceptibility pattern. The aim of our study was to assess the incidence of HA burn wound infection, risk factors and to determine the microbiological profile and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of isolated pathogens.

Assessment of safe injection practices in health facilities in Oman.

Background: Unsafe injection practices put patients and providers at risk of infectious and noninfectious adverse events. A 2001 Ministry of Health survey on injection practices in Oman indicated that, while overall standards were good, in some areas there was a need for improvement.

Aim: We aimed to evaluate injection safety practices to determine whether facilities meet the requirements for practices, equipment, supplies and waste disposal, and to identify unsafe practices.

A Retrospective Analysis of Dialysis Events over a 3-Year Period in an Outpatient Dialysis Unit in the State of Kuwait.

Objective: To determine the difference in the rates of dialysis events stratified by vascular access type and to describe the microbiological profile and sensitivity patterns of positive blood cultures over a 3-year period.

Subjects And Methods: The dialysis event data of 10,751 chronic hemodialysis patients collected from March 2013 to February 2016 at an outpatient dialysis unit in Kuwait were reviewed. The dialysis events studied were: intravenous (IV) antimicrobial use, a positive blood culture, and signs of inflammation at the vascular access site.