Prevention and Control Measures of Hygiene-Associated Nosocomial Infections
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Epidemiology & Public Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 256
Special Issue Editors
Interests: hygiene; disinfection; infection control; waterborne disease; foodborne disease; airborne disease
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: hygiene, disinfection, infection control, waterborne disease, foodborne disease, airborne disease
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Although international guidelines suggest the common best practices aimed at managing infectious risk in hospital settings, literature data assert the incidence increase for nosocomial infections. Multidrug-resistant Gram negative bacteria (Klebsiella pneumonie KPC, E.coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia) or Gram positive cocci (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, vancominic-resistant enterococci) and yeasts (Candida auris) may spread in hospital environments, compromising healthcare services, costs, and technical procedures.
Control measures and hygienic risk assessment in healthcare facilities may represent strong preventive strategies aimed at managing the infectious risk in medical stays and operating theatres of several medical and surgical wards.
Therefore, preventive measures such as disinfection procedures, patient management, hand hygiene, etc. are of the greatest importance.
Given the importance of prevention and control measures of hygiene-associated nosocomial infections in the field of medicine and research, the journal Medicina is launching this Special Issue.
We encourage you and your co-workers to submit your articles reporting on this topic. Welcome are reviews or original articles dealing with the following aspects:
- Hospital cleaning and disinfection;
- Hand hygiene;
- Role of personal protective equipment;
- Patient management;
- Screening tests;
- Contamination of hospital environment (surfaces, water, air, food, medical devices);
- Surgical site infections;
- Co-infection in COVID-19 patients.
Dr. Michele Totaro
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Hospital disinfection
- Hospital contamination
- Hand hygiene
- Multidrug-resistant microorganisms
- Patient management
