American journal of infection control
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Am J Infect Control · Dec 2011
Effect of interventions in reducing the rate of infection after cesarean delivery.
Post-cesarean delivery (CD) surgical site infections can cause considerable maternal morbidity. We aimed to estimate the efficacy of a medical personnel education program in aseptic and scrub techniques on the rate of infectious morbidity after CD. ⋯ The interventions implemented at our institution led to a considerable decline in post-CD infectious morbidity.
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Am J Infect Control · Dec 2011
Preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infection in the zero-tolerance era.
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is one of the most common health care‒associated infections in the critical care setting. ⋯ Our findings suggest that reducing CAUTI rates in the ICU setting is a complex process that involves multiple performance measures and interventions that can be applied to SDU settings as well.