TY  -  JOUR
AU  -  Arnoldo, Luca
AU  -  Cocconi, Roberto
AU  -  Fabro, Renata
AU  -  Faruzzo, Alda
AU  -  Tignonsini, Daniela
AU  -  Brusaferro, Silvio
AU  -  ed il gruppo regionale dei risk manager del FVG
T1  -  Utilizzo delle prevalenze ripetute per la sorveglianza<BR>delle Infezioni nelle Organizzazioni Sanitarie (IOS): <BR>l’esperienza del Friuli Venezia Giulia
PY  -  2014
Y1  -  2014-10-01
DO  -  10.1716/1816.19780
JO  -  GIMPIOS
JA  -  Gimpios
VL  -  4
IS  -  4
SP  -  168
EP  -  174
PB  -  Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore
SN  -  1122-407X
Y2  -  2026/04/18
UR  -  http://dx.doi.org/10.1716/1816.19780
N2  -  Introduction. One of the objectives of Friuli Venezia Giulia (FVG) patient safety programme is the infection prevention and control. In this context a point prevalence survey (PPS), that permits to estimate the burden and the characteristics of Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) and Antimicrobial Use (AU), represents an important tool to find priorities and carry out shared actions for improving. Methods. Two PPS were made, the first in October 2011 and the second in October 2013. The PPS involved all the acute facilities of FVG (public and private). For both the PPS it was used the protocol developed by ECDC for the 2011 PPS. Before each PPS two training days were organised to form professionals about ECDC protocol, in these four meetings were formed about 140 healthcare professionals. Results. In 2011 were involved 3267 patients with a prevalence of HAI of 6.9% and of AU of 40.7% in 2013 were involved 3360 patients with a prevalence of HAI of 6.2% and of AU of 39%. In 2011 were detected 248 HAI, the most frequent were urinary tract infections (UTI) 62, pneumonia 49 and surgical site infections 42; in 2013 were detected 223 HAI, the most frequent were pneumonia 56, UTI 54 and bloodstream infections 32. Discussion. The use of repeated PPS at regional level provides the opportunity to evaluate the effectiveness of active programmes and to detect shared improvement areas, at single facilities level provides an important tool for the benchmark.
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