Research Article
Low Compliance to Handwashing Program and High Nosocomial Infection in a Brazilian Hospital
Table 2
Frequency of nosocomial infection, infection/colonization by MRSA before, and after intervention. OR = odds ratio and CI = confidence interval.
| | Variables | Before intervention
(%) | After intervention
(%) | | OR (CI 95%) |
| | Nosocomial infection | 56 (28.9) | 44 (25.7) | 0.58 | 1.2 (0.7–1.9) | | RTI1 lower | 9 (16.1) | 16 (36.4) | 0.03* | 0.3 (0.1–0.9) | | Surgical-site infection | 15 (26.8) | 6 (13.6) | 0.17 | 2.3 (0.7–7.5) | | Bloodstream infection | 9 (16.1) | 14 (31.8) | 0.10 | 0.4 (0.1–1.2) | | Urinary tract infection | 17 (30.4) | 12 (27.3) | 0.90 | 1.2 (0.4–3.0) | | Others2 | 9 (16.1) | 7 (16.0) | 0.80 | 1.0 (0.3–3.4) | | Use of ≥2 antibiotics | 22 (39.3) | 21 (47.7) | 0.52 | 0.7 (0.3–1.7) | | Exposure to ≥3 devices | 9 (16.1) | 10 (22.7) | 0.55 | 0.7 (0.2–1.9) | | S. aureus infection | 15 (6.0) | 6 (4.1) | 0.58 | 1.5 (0.5–4.4) | | MRSA3 infection | 10 (66.7) | 5 (83.3) | 0.62 | 0.4 (0.01–5.8) | | S. aureus colonization | 48 (19.0) | 19 (13.0) | 0.16 | 1.6 (0.9–2.9) | | MRSA colonization | 15 (31.3) | 6 (31.6) | 0.79 | 0.9 (0.3–3.6) |
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1RTI: respiratory tract infections; 2conjunctivitis, meningitis and/or skin and eye infection; 3MRSA: methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; #chi-square; *statistically significant.
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