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List members may be interested to read the latest HAI surveillance data from South Korea. These highlight some interesting points:
* 89% of S.aureas were MRSA. This must be the highest rate reported anywhere in the world
* 51% of E. faecium were VRE
* Almost 87% of Acinetobacter were Imipenem resistant
* The IC nurse/doctor : bed ratio is < 2 which is low and 416 beds to each IC professional which is correspondingly high
* It is difficult to compare their rates with other studies because only patient days are reported and not the number of patients, but assuming the LOS was 3 days this suggests that the overall infection rate was 14%
Quite astonishing.
Don Bissell
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Claire
You can find the data at the link below
http://www.cdc.go.kr/CDC/health/CdcKrHealth0501.jsp?menuIdsHOME001-MNU0001-MNU0111-MNU0114Regards
DonDon Bissell
Managing Director
BIOQUELL ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTD207 Henderson Road,#01-05
Singapore 159550My first question on this data would be what antibiotic prescribing practices and stewardship protocols are in place in Korea? I recall from meeting with the Japanese Infection Control groups some time ago that there had been some collaboration in terms of ICP numbers and IC programs in an attempt to educate the associated Ministries of Health in each country.
Are you able to cite the reference paper for this data Don although I see it was from KONIS where was it published? It would be useful to know which definitions and methodology they are using ie if it is based on NNIS (CDC) as they are not part of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium.
Regards,
ClaireClaire Boardman
B. App Sc (nsg), Grad Cert IC, MPH, CICP
Past President, ACIPC
[cid:CEUPYBISHPOH.IMAGE_78.BMP][cid:image002.png@01CE9430.4A744D00]List members may be interested to read the latest HAI surveillance data from South Korea. These highlight some interesting points:
* 89% of S.aureas were MRSA. This must be the highest rate reported anywhere in the world
* 51% of E. faecium were VRE
* Almost 87% of Acinetobacter were Imipenem resistant
* The IC nurse/doctor : bed ratio is < 2 which is low and 416 beds to each IC professional which is correspondingly high
* It is difficult to compare their rates with other studies because only patient days are reported and not the number of patients, but assuming the LOS was 3 days this suggests that the overall infection rate was 14%
Quite astonishing.
Don Bissell
Managing Director
BIOQUELL ASIA PACIFIC PTE LTD207 Henderson Road,#01-05
Singapore 159550This message has been scanned for viruses by BlackSpider MailControl
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