A Goal Unrealized: Patient Empowerment on Hand Hygiene- A Web-Based Survey from India.

Introduction: Each year, millions of patients around the world are affected by Health Care Associated Infections (HCAIs). Understanding and assessing the global burden of HCAI is one of the key areas of work to improve the hand hygiene.

Aim: To assess the patient empowerment and awareness on hand hygiene among online users.

Scuba diving injuries among Divers Alert Network members 2010-2011.

Background: Scuba diving injuries vary greatly in severity and prognosis. While decompression sickness (DCS) and arterial gas embolism can be tracked easily, other forms of diving injury remain unaccounted for.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to assess rates of overall self-reported scuba-diving-related injuries, self-reported DCS-like symptoms, and treated DCS and their association with diver certification level, diving experience and demographic factors.

Per-capita claims rates for decompression sickness among insured Divers Alert Network members.

Decompression sickness (DCS) in recreational diving is a rare and usually self-limiting injury, but permanent disability can occur. Incidence rate estimates are difficult to establish because the number of divers at risk is usually unknown in population samples with well-documented DCS. We estimated the annual per-capita DCS incidence rates for 2000-2007 based on insurance claims submitted by members of the Divers Alert Network (DAN), Durham, N.

Scuba injury death rate among insured DAN members.

We calculated the annual rates of diving-related deaths among DAN-insured members in the period from 2000 to 2006 and investigated the effects of age and sex on death rate by logistic regression. We determined relative risks for divers < 50 and ≥ 50 years of age for drowning, arterial gas embolism, and cardiac incidents, the three most common disabling injuries associated with diving death. There were 1,141,367 insured member-years and 187 diving-related deaths.