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The successful development and implementation of an off campus triage system during the COVID-19 pandemic in Guangdong, China 中国广东省在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间成功开发和实施了校外分诊系统

International Journal of Infection Control Pub Date : 2021-07-30 DOI: 10.3396/ijic.v17.20918

R. Xie, Yanfang Chen, Z. Xiong, Jie Wang, Lepeng Zhou, Ning Li, S. Pakhalé, D. Cameron, D. Krewski, S. Wen

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Antimicrobial drug resistance and infection prevention/control: lessons from tuberculosis 抗微生物药物耐药性和感染预防/控制:结核病的经验教训

International Journal of Infection Control Pub Date : 2021-07-29 DOI: 10.3396/ijic.v17.20840

J. P. Cegielski, C. Tudor, G. Volchenkov, P. Jensen

{"title":"Antimicrobial drug resistance and infection prevention/control: lessons from tuberculosis","authors":"J. P. Cegielski, C. Tudor, G. Volchenkov, P. Jensen","doi":"10.3396/ijic.v17.20840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3396/ijic.v17.20840","url":null,"abstract":"Antimicrobial drug resistance (AMR) is increasing rapidly worldwide, causing an estimated 700,000 deaths annually over the past decade, en route to becoming the leading global threat to public health by 2050 with an estimated 10 million deaths per year (more than heart disease, cancer, and stroke), while reducing global wealth by US$100 trillion. Yet AMR has not received the attention and action required to change this trajectory. Appropriate infection prevention and control (IPC) measures are needed to prevent transmission of infections to healthcare workers (HCWs), other patients, families, and the general public. In this review, we discuss a notable case study of AMR: highly drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) has emerged repeatedly over the past 70 years as new drugs have been introduced, leading to new diagnostics, therapeutics, funding, public health strategies, and, in high-income countries, effective IPC measures that curtailed transmission. We review current efforts to control and prevent AMR using the example of drug-resistant tuberculosis to highlight important themes including laboratory systems, surveillance, control and prevention of healthcare-associated infections (especially among HCWs), better coordination across disciplines and diseases, and powerful advocacy/social change initiatives grounded in social and behavioral sciences. These strategies are the foundation of an effective response to the AMR threat to public health.","PeriodicalId":13991,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Infection Control","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80969066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Antibiotic usage at a private hospital in Central Java: results of implementing the Indonesian Regulation on the Prospective Antimicrobial System (Regulasi Antimikroba Sistem Prospektif Indonesia [RASPRO]) 中爪哇一家私立医院的抗生素使用情况:实施《印度尼西亚预期抗菌系统条例》(Regulasi Antimikroba System Prospektif Indonesia [RASPRO])的结果

International Journal of Infection Control Pub Date : 2021-07-29 DOI: 10.3396/ijic.v17.20411

Ronald Irwanto Natadidjaja, Tarcisius Henry, Hadianti Adlani, A. Ariyani, R. Bur

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Knowledge, attitude and self-reported practice of healthcare workers on infection control in a health facility in Akure, Nigeria 尼日利亚阿库雷一家卫生机构中卫生保健工作者关于感染控制的知识、态度和自我报告的做法

International Journal of Infection Control Pub Date : 2021-07-26 DOI: 10.3396/ijic.v17.20818

Abiola O. Oluwagbemiga, S. Akinsete, G. Ana, Olusola Olabisi Ogunseye

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Challenges facing an outsourcing dialysis program amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Diaverum AB experience COVID-19大流行期间外包透析项目面临的挑战:Diaverum AB的经验

International Journal of Infection Control Pub Date : 2021-07-23 DOI: 10.3396/ijic.v17.20619

A. Alharbi, D. Mousa, Jennifer A. Samson, M. Ahmad, Lidia Gómez, Meshal Alkhulayfi, Eyad Suleiman, S. Alghamdi, F. Alhejaili, A. Alhweish, Naglaa Maddh, Waleed Bediwi, M. Al-homrany

{"title":"Challenges facing an outsourcing dialysis program amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Diaverum AB experience","authors":"A. Alharbi, D. Mousa, Jennifer A. Samson, M. Ahmad, Lidia Gómez, Meshal Alkhulayfi, Eyad Suleiman, S. Alghamdi, F. Alhejaili, A. Alhweish, Naglaa Maddh, Waleed Bediwi, M. Al-homrany","doi":"10.3396/ijic.v17.20619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3396/ijic.v17.20619","url":null,"abstract":"Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a disease caused by a novel coronavirus, is a major global human threat that has turned into a pandemic. Elderly patients and patients with comorbid conditions have a higher risk of complications and morbidity. Patients suffering from kidney disease on hemodialysis have an intrinsic fragility combined with a frequent burden of comorbidities in hemodialysis centers, a setting in which many patients are repeatedly treated in the same area. Moreover, if infected, the intensity of dialysis requiring specialized resources and staff is further complicated by requirements for isolation, control and prevention, putting healthcare systems under additional and exceptional strain. Therefore, all measures to slow if not eradicate the pandemic and to control unmanageably high incidence rates must be taken very seriously. Diaverum is a renal health services company playing a major role in providing end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) patients with optimum dialysis services. The aim of the present review is to shed light on the challenges and steps taken by an outsourcing dialysis program to provide recommendations for the prevention, mitigation, and containment of the emerging COVID-19 pandemic in hemodialysis centers.","PeriodicalId":13991,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Infection Control","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86122962","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Hepatitis B infection and its prevention among healthcare workers in Ghana: More action required 加纳卫生保健工作者中的乙型肝炎感染及其预防:需要采取更多行动

International Journal of Infection Control Pub Date : 2021-07-15 DOI: 10.3396/ijic.v17.21542

V. E. Senoo-Dogbey

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Unprepared and unprotected: Graduating medical students’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding drug-resistant tuberculosis in Cape Town, South Africa 无准备和无保护:南非开普敦医科毕业生对耐药结核病的知识、态度和做法

International Journal of Infection Control Pub Date : 2021-06-24 DOI: 10.3396/ijic.v17.21110

Michael J. Harrison, J. Watts, Michael-Jon Rosslee, A. von Delft, H. van der Westhuizen

{"title":"Unprepared and unprotected: Graduating medical students’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding drug-resistant tuberculosis in Cape Town, South Africa","authors":"Michael J. Harrison, J. Watts, Michael-Jon Rosslee, A. von Delft, H. van der Westhuizen","doi":"10.3396/ijic.v17.21110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3396/ijic.v17.21110","url":null,"abstract":"South Africa has a high burden of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), which has a particularly high mortality among healthcare workers. Junior clinicians deliver key DR-TB services and require training in DR-TB management and prevention. This study aimed to investigate graduating medical students’ knowledge, attitudes, and practices relating to DR-TB, including management, infection control measures, and occupational health services. This cross-sectional, questionnaire-based study at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, recruited final year medical students and included 87 participants. The mean DR-TB knowledge score was 4.7 points (95% confidence interval [CI]: 4.42–5.06, maximum score 8 points). Students reported challenges in accessing respiratory protection, with half (47.7%) struggling to find an N95 respirator when needed. DR-TB exposure was reportedly common. Three students reported prior TB disease, approximately half (n = 49, 55.9%) reported personal concern of active DR-TB disease during undergraduate studies, and the majority (n = 80, 91.9%) correctly perceived themselves to be at increased risk compared to the general population. Medical students are currently unprepared for their role in managing DR-TB in South Africa and unprotected against occupational illness during their studies. This should be addressed in undergraduate curricula and in establishing comprehensive occupational health policies. Resilient personal protective equipment (PPE) supply chains, infection control training, and comprehensive occupational health support have relevance to both DR-TB and novel pathogens, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2).","PeriodicalId":13991,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Infection Control","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81384590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Knowledge, perception of risk of disease, and infection prevention and control practices among healthcare workers and support staff toward COVID-19 in an Ethiopian referral hospital: a cross-sectional survey 埃塞俄比亚一家转诊医院医护人员和支持人员对COVID-19的知识、疾病风险认知以及感染防控措施:一项横断面调查

International Journal of Infection Control Pub Date : 2021-06-03 DOI: 10.3396/IJIC.V17.20726

Esubalew T. Mindaye, Bekalu Assaminew, G. K. Tesfay

{"title":"Knowledge, perception of risk of disease, and infection prevention and control practices among healthcare workers and support staff toward COVID-19 in an Ethiopian referral hospital: a cross-sectional survey","authors":"Esubalew T. Mindaye, Bekalu Assaminew, G. K. Tesfay","doi":"10.3396/IJIC.V17.20726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3396/IJIC.V17.20726","url":null,"abstract":"Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic affecting over 106 million and killing over 2.3 million people. Inadequate knowledge of the disease coupled with scarce or improper use of infection prevention and control (IPC) measures by healthcare workers (HCWs) and support staff may be contributing to the rapid spread of infection. This survey aims to assess knowledge, risk perception, and precaution practices of HCWs and support staff toward COVID-19 under resource-constrained circumstances at a major referral hospital in Ethiopia. An institution-based survey was conducted in April 2020 using 422 subjects selected by stratified random sampling. A five-section survey instrument was distributed, and the collected responses were cleaned and entered into Epi data (v3.1) and exported to SPSS (v.26) for further statistical analysis. The survey found that about 58% of the HCWs and support staff in the hospital appear to have adequate awareness and perceive COVID-19 to be a high-risk disease. Seven out of 10 subjects practice some form of IPC measures. However, the knowledge among allied HCWs and support staff appears to be inadequate. Gender, occupation, and years in service correlated with the level of awareness. Of those surveyed, 78% were concerned about the lack of personal protective equipment and perceived public transportation to be a high-risk factor for the transmission of infection. Additional campaigns may be necessary to reinforce existing knowledge of HCWs, but more emphasis should be geared toward educating allied HCWs and support staff.","PeriodicalId":13991,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Infection Control","volume":"331 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76529709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Self-medication practice and associated factors among adults in Wolaita Soddo town, Southern Ethiopia 埃塞俄比亚南部Wolaita Soddo镇成年人的自我药疗实践及其相关因素

International Journal of Infection Control Pub Date : 2021-05-28 DOI: 10.3396/IJIC.V17.20322

T. Mathewos, Kassa Daka, Shimelis Bitew, D. Daka

{"title":"Self-medication practice and associated factors among adults in Wolaita Soddo town, Southern Ethiopia","authors":"T. Mathewos, Kassa Daka, Shimelis Bitew, D. Daka","doi":"10.3396/IJIC.V17.20322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3396/IJIC.V17.20322","url":null,"abstract":"Background: Self-medication is the selection and use of medicines by individuals to treat their self-recognized illnesses or symptoms. Self-medication can decrease costs and enable health professionals to concentrate on more serious health problems. Aim: To assess self-medication practice and associated factors among adults in Wolaita Soddo town, Southern Ethiopia, 2017. Methods: An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted from September 30 to October 30, 2017. A multi-stage sampling technique of drug retail outlets in Wolaita Soddo town was employed to identify 623 individuals that came to buy drugs in the past three months. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire. Results: About 33.7% of the respondents had practiced self-medication in the past 3 months. Multivariate analysis revealed that female sex (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 2.22, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.47–3.36), low income (AOR = 3.95, 95% CI: 2.32–6.73) and higher educational level (AOR = 5.79, 95% CI: 2.47–13.58) were the independent factors significantly affecting the practice of self-medication with drugs. Headache/fever (32.4%), respiratory tract infections (31.4%) and gastrointestinal diseases (16.2%) were the most frequently reported illnesses or symptoms of illnesses that prompted self-medication of study participants. Conclusion: Health education campaigns, strict legislations on dispensing drugs from private pharmacies, and improving accessibility and affordability of health care are among the important interventions required to change people’s health-seeking behavior and prevent the potential risks of self-medication.","PeriodicalId":13991,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Infection Control","volume":"158 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74908960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Investigation of the effectiveness of antimicrobial photocatalyst-coated hand-contact surfaces in passenger transport vehicles under everyday conditions 日常条件下客运车辆抗菌光催化剂涂层手接触表面的有效性研究

International Journal of Infection Control Pub Date : 2021-05-14 DOI: 10.3396/IJIC.V17.20969

R. Eicker, Wilhelm Salomon

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