French National Program for Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance, 1992-2008: Positive Trends, But Perseverance Needed

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International audience. Objective: To describe the French program for the prevention of healthcare-associated infections and antibiotic resistance and provide results for some of the indicators available to evaluate...

Reducing surgical site infection incidence through a network: results from the French ISO-RAISIN surveillance system

Archive ouverte | Astagneau, P. | CCSD

International audience. Surgical-site infections (SSIs) are a key target for nosocomial infection control programmes. We evaluated the impact of an eight-year national SSI surveillance system named ISO-RAISIN (infec...

A large nosocomial outbreak of Hepatitis C Virus Infections at a Hemodialysis Center

Archive ouverte | Savey, A | CCSD