The quality of professional practices in infection control programs in Brazil: a cross-sectional study

Escola Anna Nery Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1590/2177-9465-ean-2022-0229en

A. Alvim, B. Couto, A. Gazzinelli

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ABSTRACT Objective To analyze the quality of professional practices in infection control programs regarding structure, process, and outcome. Method This is a quantitative, descriptive, and cross-sectional study carried out in 114 hospital infection control services in the five official regions of Brazil. The data were collected using a structured instrument whose psychometric properties were previously validated. Data treatment was performed by principal component analysis and non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis test. Results The best quality index of infection control programs was attributed to the South region, to hospitals that had 300 beds or more, to those that used the National Healthcare Safety Network criterion for infection surveillance and to places that carried out an active prospective search as their surveillance method. Conclusion and implications for practice: The quality of infection control programs is related to hospital location, size, and infection surveillance method. The creation of a quality index, hitherto unheard of in Brazilian studies, draws attention to the precarious performance of health services.

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巴西感染控制项目的专业实践质量:一项横断面研究

【摘要】目的分析感染控制专业实践的结构、流程和结果。方法:这是一项定量、描述性和横断面研究，在巴西五个官方地区的114家医院感染控制服务中进行。数据是使用结构化仪器收集的，其心理测量特性先前已得到验证。数据处理采用主成分分析和非参数Kruskal-Wallis检验。结果感染控制项目质量指标最好的地区为南方地区、床位300张及以上的医院、采用国家医疗安全网络感染监测标准的医院和采用主动前瞻性搜索监测方法的医院。结论和实践启示:感染控制程序的质量与医院的位置、规模和感染监测方法有关。迄今在巴西的研究中闻所未闻的质量指数的建立，使人们注意到卫生服务的不稳定表现。

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Escola Anna Nery

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49 weeks

期刊介绍： Anna Nery School Journal of Nursing is a vehicle for scientific communication sponsored by Anna Nery School of Nursing, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, since 1997. The Journal''s mission is publishing an original manuscript related to Nursing, Healthcare and other areas of knowledge whenever there are interfaces in Health and Nursing Science.The journal will accept original manuscripts, developed by quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. It is also accepted studies such as reflections, essays, and systematized reviews. All those manuscripts should bring direct or indirect contributions to the historicity and practice of nursing care, to nursing education, to the development of new methodologies and technologies for caring, teaching, and research. It has a special interest in the studies developed with vulnerable populations whose findings directly contribute to broadening the nursing science that underlies ethical and human care.