Infection Control

Infection Control

Introduction

For our reference, we have chosen two quantitative peer-reviewed articles on the topic 'infection control'. One of the articles is 'Effectiveness of comprehensive implementation of individualized bundling infection control measures for prevention of health care-associated infections in general medical wards'. This article was published in 2011 in the American Journal of Infection Control and written by Montri et.al. The other article is titled 'Nosocomial Infections in a Children's Hospital in Argentina: Impact of Unique Infection Control Intervention Program'. This was written by Angela et.al and published in 2001 in the journal Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Discussion

We will provide an abstract for both the articles and briefly describe our investigations. We begin by our first article written by Montri et.al. In this article, writers pointed to the fact that even after introducing infection control measures in Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand, prevalence of health care-associated infections (HAIs) remained at 10%. This study was then further conducted to determine the effect of introducing individualized bundling infection control measures on HAIs. The study also meant to determine the lowest percentage of HAIs in general medical wards. So far, studies show that HAI's is a problem which exists at various level in different hospital systems all over the world. More research and solutions need to be introduced in trying to reduce HAIs in patients. Recently, studies have also been taken by Aboelala et.al to discuss this issue. Although, their findings were also helpful in finding new solutions, Monti et.al tried to conduct their own research on this issue.As far as the method of study is concerned, Montri et.al conducted their study in two different classes of wards, general wards and intervention wards. 4 wards of each class were used, and the patients who were present in control wards were in constant examination and ...