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Recommendations for the implementation of a dashboard for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections at each French healthcare facility. Report by the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance in response to the request of March 21, 2003, fr
The Minister of Health, Mr. Jean-François MATTEI, referred the matter to the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) in March 2003 (Appendix 1) to establish indicators for...
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Second National Survey on the Prevalence of Healthcare-Associated Infections, France, 2001. National Surveillance of Infectious Diseases, 2001–2003
Key points: - A second national survey on the prevalence of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) was conducted in 1,533 public and private French healthcare facilities, representing...
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Practices of the Ddass in response to an isolated case of non-nosocomial, non-thermal legionellosis in 2002
Legionellosis has been a notifiable disease since 1987. The surveillance system was strengthened in 1997 with the publication of a circular on the prevention and surveillance of...
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BMR-Raisin Network. Surveillance of multidrug-resistant bacteria in healthcare facilities in France. 2002 Results
Since 2002, a national protocol called BMR-RAISIN has enabled the five C.CLIN centers to generate, through their networks, standardized data on the two types of multidrug-resistant...
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National Survey on the Prevalence of Healthcare-Associated Infections, 1996
As part of the 1995–2000 plan to combat nosocomial infections, the National Technical Committee on Nosocomial Infections and the Ministry of Health decided to conduct a national...
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Prevalence of nosocomial rotavirus infections in pediatrics
During the two winters of 1992–1993 and 1993–1994, 10 hospitals responded to the surveys. These included 3 university hospitals (Angers, Caen, Nantes) and 7 regional hospitals (Cholet,...
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Opinion of the Technical Committee on Nosocomial and Healthcare-Associated Infections regarding the control of the spread of glycopeptide-resistant enterococci in French healthcare facilities, October 6, 2005
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Report of nosocomial meningitis following invasive spinal procedures, France, 2001–2005.
Introduction - Nosocomial meningitis is a serious and rare infection; reporting of such cases has been mandatory since August 2001 for all healthcare facilities, whether public or...
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Perceptions of hospital-acquired risk among the French population, 2005–2006.
Introduction - For the past 15 years in France, the fight against healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) has been actively promoted by public authorities. The law of March 4, 2002,...
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Clostridium difficile 027: Microbiological and Epidemiological Characteristics
Abstract. Clostridium difficile is a spore-forming, anaerobic, Gram-positive bacillus responsible for 15% to 25% of cases of post-antibiotic diarrhea and more than 95% of cases of...
