Working awareness of healthcare workers regarding sterilisation, disinfection, and transmission of bloodborne infections and device-related infections at a tertiary care referral centre in north India

Clinical impact and cost-effectiveness of split-septum and single-use prefilled flushing device vs 3-way stopcock on central line–associated bloodstream infection rates in India: a randomized clinical trial conducted by the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC)

“…The contamination rate was 8% for the 3WSC (4 out of 50 samples positive), compared with 0% for SS (0 out of 50 samples). 25 This is the first RCT to examine the effect of using SS þ SUF vs 3WSC on the incidence rate of CLABSI and to assess the costeffectiveness of the 2 types of devices, which is sufficient ethical and theoretical justification for conducting this particular trial and, through its publication, increasing and spreading awareness on this public health burden in Indiaethe second largest country of the world, with a population of approximately 1,300,000,000 people, 26 as well as throughout the developing world where 3WSCs are in use. 2,27 …”

Knowledge and Practices of Disinfectants and Sanitizers Use during COVID-19 Pandemic in Jordan

“…Responses for this study were collected using a webbased cross-sectional questionnaire. A three-section questionnaire was developed by the authors based on the careful and precise observation of the community and a review of recent available literature [19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31] . The first section of the questionnaire is composed of items related to demographics and general characteristics of the surveyed sample, including gender, age, marital status, governorate of residence, education, monthly income, and profession.…”

“…The knowledge section (section two) consisted of eleven items on a 3-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (disagree) to 3 (agree) and was scored accordingly. The total score of participants' knowledge about disinfectants ranged from 11-33; based on this, participants were divided into poor to moderate knowledge participants (score range 11-28) and high knowledge participants (score range [29][30][31][32][33].…”

Impact of an International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium multidimensional approach on central line-associated bloodstream infection rates in adult intensive care units in eight cities in India

“…The length of the baseline period was 3 months for the following three reasons: (1) queries to participating ICUs; receiving and analyzing replies to queries; uploading and analyzing CRF data; producing monthly reports containing charts and tables with the results of outcome and process surveillance; sending monthly reports to each ICU; presenting the monthly report to health care workers (HCWs) at the participating ICUs at monthly infection control meetings, with the aim of providing feedback on CLABSI rates and their consequences and performance feedback to increase awareness about CLABSIs and to improve compliance with infection control practices. 11 (2) The sample size of patients and number of months of data collection during the baseline period are sufficient for comparison with the sample size of patients and number of months of data collection during the intervention period. From a statistical perspective, the issue is addressed by considering the changes in rates over time.…”

“…This provided sufficient ethical and theoretical justification for conducting this particular study, and through its publication, increase and spread awareness of this public health burden in India. 11…”