Abstract:OBJECTIVE:To model the economic costs of hospitalacquired infections (HAIs) in New Zealand, by type of HAL DESIGN: Monte Carlo simulation model. SETTING: Auckland District Health Board Hospitals (DHBH), the largest publicly funded hospital group in New Zealand supplying secondary and tertiary services. Costs are also estimated for predicted HAIs in admissions to all hospitals in New Zealand.PATIENTS: All adults admitted to general medical and general surgical services.METHOD: Data on the number of cases of HAI… Show more
“…In New Zealand, NI contribute approximately $136 million to health care budgets annually. 1 Implementation of proper hand hygiene practices amongst healthcare workers (HCW) is accepted as the single most important measure in controlling NI. 2,3 Compliance rates to hand hygiene standards are generally low, 4 indicating that common NI pathogens on HCW hands (such as Gram negative bacilli, staphylococci, enterococci and clostridia) 4,5 are at risk of being transmitted to patients and potentially causing NI.…”
Health care workers introduced skin commensals and pathogenic bacteria into glove boxes indicating that unused, non-sterile gloves are potential pathogen transmission vehicles in hospitals. Findings highlight adherence to handwashing guidelines, common glove retrieval practice, and glove-box design as targets for decreasing bacteria transmission via gloves on hospital wards.
“…In New Zealand, NI contribute approximately $136 million to health care budgets annually. 1 Implementation of proper hand hygiene practices amongst healthcare workers (HCW) is accepted as the single most important measure in controlling NI. 2,3 Compliance rates to hand hygiene standards are generally low, 4 indicating that common NI pathogens on HCW hands (such as Gram negative bacilli, staphylococci, enterococci and clostridia) 4,5 are at risk of being transmitted to patients and potentially causing NI.…”
Health care workers introduced skin commensals and pathogenic bacteria into glove boxes indicating that unused, non-sterile gloves are potential pathogen transmission vehicles in hospitals. Findings highlight adherence to handwashing guidelines, common glove retrieval practice, and glove-box design as targets for decreasing bacteria transmission via gloves on hospital wards.
“…The magnitude of these adverse events varies according to the surgical procedure, country of study, year of publication and the methods used. [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] Hitherto, there has been inadequate information for English hospitals on the adverse effects of SSI in defined categories of surgical procedures. However, the Nosocomial Infection National Surveillance Service (NINSS) provided English hospitals for the first time with standard methods for the surveillance of SSI and comparative data to assess their infection rates.…”
“…The costs associated with these incidents are significant. In 2003, the cost of healthcare‐associated infections to the New Zealand healthcare system was estimated at NZ$85.26 million, and the costs associated with only 126 SSIs in one Australian state were recently reported to be in excess of AU$5 million . Infections in surgical sites occur in 1–4% of cardiac surgery patients and are associated with poor outcomes and increased mortality .…”
Surgical site infections (SSIs) are serious adverse events hindering surgical patients' recovery. In Australia and New Zealand, SSIs are a huge burden to patients and healthcare systems. A bundled approach, including pre-theatre nasal and/or skin decolonization has been used to reduce the risk of staphylococcal infection. The aim of this review is to assess the effectiveness of the bundle in preventing SSIs for cardiac and orthopaedic surgeries. The review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses statement. Published literature was searched in PubMed, Embase and Cochrane Library of Systematic reviews. Identified articles were selected and extracted based on a priori defined Population-Intervention-Comparator-Outcome and eligibility criteria. Data of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and comparative observational studies were synthesized by meta-analyses. Quality appraisal tools were used to assess the evidence quality. The review included six RCTs and 19 observational studies. The bundled treatment regimens varied substantially across all studies. RCTs showed a trend of Staphylococcus aureus SSIs reduction due to the bundle (relative risk = 0.59, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.33, 1.06) with moderate heterogeneity. Observational studies showed statistically significant reduction in all-cause and S. aureus SSIs, with 51% (95% CI = 0.41, 0.59) and 47% (95% CI = 0.35, 0.65), respectively. No publication biases were detected. SSIs in major cardiac and orthopaedic surgeries can be effectively reduced by approximately 50% with a pre-theatre patient care bundle approach.
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