Mortality outcomes of patients on chronic mechanical ventilation in different care settings: A systematic review.

Objectives: To determine the outcomes of chronically ventilated patients outside the setting of intensive care units.

Design: Systematic review.

Setting And Participants: Studies evaluating patients on chronic invasive mechanical ventilation in different care settings.

Can educational speech intervention improve visitors' hand hygiene compliance?

Background: Hand hygiene, a simple and low-cost measure, remains the leading intervention for reducing the burden related to healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). While many interventions have been tested to improve staff hand hygiene compliance, hospital visitors continue to have low compliance rates, which increases the risk of HAIs and resistant organisms' transmission into hospitals and out to the community.

Aim: To assess the effectiveness of educational speech intervention (ESI) for increasing hand hygiene compliance rate among hospital visitors.

1-Year Survival of Subjects Discharged From a Long-Term Chronic Ventilator Unit.

Introduction: Among survivors of intensive care, many remain dependent on mechanical ventilation and are discharged to long-term chronic ventilator units or to skilled nursing facilities. Few long-term outcome data are available on patients transferred from long-term chronic ventilator units.

Methods: We retrospectively followed subjects discharged from a long-term chronic ventilator unit from 2010-2012.