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“How Can the Patients Remain Safe, If We Are Not Safe and Protected from the Infections”? A Qualitative Exploration among Health-Care Workers about Challenges of Maintaining Hospital Cleanliness in a Resource Limited Tertiary Setting in Rural India
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- Joshi, Sudhir Chandra (författare)
- RD Gardi Med Coll, Dept Community Med, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- Diwan, Vishal (författare)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Joshi, Rita (författare)
- RD Gardi Med Coll, Dept Microbiol, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- Sharma, Megha (författare)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Pathak, Ashish, 1973- (författare)
- Karolinska Institutet,Uppsala universitet,Internationell mödra- och barnhälsovård (IMCH),Karolinska Inst, Dept Publ Hlth Sci Global Hlth Hlth Syst & Policy, Stockholm, Sweden; RD Gardi Med Coll, Dept Pediat, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- Shah, Harshada (författare)
- RD Gardi Med Coll, Dept Microbiol, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India
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- Tamhankar, Ashok J. (författare)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- Stålsby Lundborg, Cecilia (författare)
- Karolinska Institutet
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- 2018-09-06
- 2018
- Engelska.
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Ingår i: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. - : MDPI AG. - 1661-7827 .- 1660-4601. ; 15:9
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Abstract
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- Background: Health care-associated infections (HAIs) result in treatment delays as well as failures and financial losses not only to patients but also to the treating hospital and overall health-care delivery system. Due to hospital-acquired infections, there are problems of increase in morbidity and mortality, additional diagnostic and therapeutic interventions and ultimately antimicrobial resistance. Proper understanding among health-care workers about the ill effects of HAIs is very important to address this issue. The present study is a qualitative exploration aimed at understanding various aspects of hospital environmental hygiene and Infection prevention control program, by exploring the staff perception regarding the challenges, facilitators and barriers as well as feasible measures towards improvement in a rural tertiary teaching hospital in central India.Method: A qualitative study was conducted using 10 focus group discussions (FGDs) among five different professional groups, which included hospital administrators, doctors, nurses, environmental cleaning staff, and undergraduate medical students. The FGD guide included the following topics: (1) opinion about the status of cleanliness, (2) concepts and actual practices prevailing of hospital environmental hygiene, (3) Barriers, constraints, and problems in maintaining hospital environmental hygiene, (4) Suggestions for improvements. The data were analyzed manually using the content (thematic) analysis method.Results: Two themes were identified: Theme 1: “Prevailing practices and problems related to hospital surface/object contamination and hospital infection control”. Theme 2: “Measures suggested for improving hospital cleanliness within the existing constraints”. The participants emphasized the influence of resource constraints and needed inputs. They brought up the consequent prevailing practices and problems related, on one hand, to various stakeholders (service consumers, hospital personnel including the management), on the other, to specific infection prevention and control processes. They also suggested various measures for improvement.Conclusions: The study has revealed prevailing practices, problems, and suggested measures related to hospital environmental hygiene, particularly hospital cleanliness and HAI prevention and control processes. These insights and assertions are important for developing future behavioral and structural interventions in resource-limited settings. This study recommends a nationwide reliable HAI surveillance system and a robust infection prevention and control program in each health-care institution.
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)
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- India
- health care-associated infection
- hospital environmental hygiene
- hospital personnel
- infection control
- patient safety
- qualitative research
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