Nurses' Attitude Towards Various Hand Hygiene Products. Soap vs Antiseptics.

Background: According to the latest recommendations of WHO, in most situations requiring hands treatment, alcohol-based skin antiseptics should be used. This study is aimed to determine the awareness and preferences of nurses in the city of Moscow regarding the choice of methods regarding hand hygiene treatment and the factors influencing this choice.

Study Design: Using the specially designed questionnaire, 184 nurses working in Moscow hospitals were interviewed to find out the attitude of nurses to various methods of hand hygiene.

[Mechanism of development of epidemic process of group A streptococcal infection in children collectives].

Aim: To study the characteristics of group A streptococcal infection epidemic process in children aged 12 - 14 years arrived to summer camp "Orlenok" (Tuapse) from different regions of Russia.

Materials And Methods: Epidemiological (retrospective analysis of incidence of acute respiratory infections, tonsillitis, and scarlet fever), microbiological (isolation and identification of group A streptococci [GAS]), and molecular biological (pulse-electrophoresis, analysis of spe and emm genes) methods were used for the study. Objects of the study were GAS strains isolated from patients and carriers.

[Methodological aspects of the evaluation of epidemiological safety in maternity hospitals].

The distribution of morbidity and mortality in newborns, as well as morbidity of parturient women, in maternity hospitals of Moscow official have been analyzed according to statistical data for 1996-1999. The methods of cluster analysis (k-medium and tree classification by the method of the next door neighbours) were used. The evaluation of the stability of the distribution of morbidity and mortality in maternity hospitals was made with the use of chi 2 criterion.

[Epidemiology and prophylaxis of hospital infections in obstetric and pediatric hospitals].

The analysis of reports of the obstetric and pediatric hospitals of Moscow for 1991-1998 revealed that, simultaneously with the deterioration of the quality of life of the population, not only a decrease in the birth rate, but also a rise in different forms of pathology in pregnant women and puerperae could be observed. The deterioration of the health characteristics of mothers was accompanied by the growth of high risk groups among newborns as well. Thus, the number of children, born sick or falling sick while staying in the obstetric clinics of Moscow, rose from 208 to 299 o/oo.