All patients were identified using the prospective institutional infection registration databases of the hospitals.
The institutional infection control committee and the board of directors of the NH approved the performance of the IRIS.
Institutional infection control policies directed that gloves, gowns, goggles, and masks be used when caring for these patients.
The clinical presentation, treatment, outcome, and personal and institutional infection control differ greatly among the most common viral infections in the ICU.
Sample based molecular assays are an important tool in the management of CDI, providing valuable information for timely treatment decisions and for appropriate institutional infection control procedures.
Over the past 10 years, our institutional infection control committee has dealt with 3 recognized outbreaks on the ICU involving Acinetobacter species in 2002 2003, Enterobacter species in 2002, and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in 2002 2004 [ 12].
Our findings reinforce the importance of maintaining strong overall TB control measures, to ensure adherence to diagnostic protocols, that all TB patients complete an appropriate treatment regimen through DOT programs, and that appropriate household and institutional infection control measures are observed.
This plan was ambitious, yet initially naive about the full extent of the effects on TB incidence due to HIV infection; multidrug resistance; institutional transmission of M. tuberculosis; and the time lag for the development of new technologies for more effective prevention, prompt diagnosis and detection of drug resistance, and superior treatment of TB.
HIV-negative patients are likely to reactivate a latent infection from decades ago, whereas HIV infected patients, in whom disease progresses rapidly, are likely to reactivate an infection acquired more recently following community or institutional transmission.
To evaluate compliance rates to institutional nosocomial infection preventive measures and the effect of a quality improvement strategy on compliance rates.
