Most international guidelines on prevention of healthcare-associated infection lack comprehensive recommendations for neonates and children.
International infection prevention and control (IPC) guidelines provide standardized recommendations for healthcare-associated infection (HCAI) prevention in adults, but often lack specific information about neonates and children. We reviewed ten international IPC/HCAI guidelines to identify paediatric-specific recommendations for HCAI prevention. Hand hygiene, bloodstream infection, ventilator-associated pneumonia, environmental control and outbreak management were frequently reported with recommendations applicable to children and newborns, but documents on catheter-associated urinary tract infection and surgical site infection were lacking.
Laboratory of Teaching in Prevention and Control of Healthcare-Associated Infections, Faculty of Medicine, Federal Fluminense University, Niterói, RJ, Brazil. Electronic address: andrericardo@huap.uff.br.
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Araujo da Silva
Service de prévention et contrôle de l'infection, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Zingg
Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Division of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa.
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Dramowski
Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, St George's University, London, UK.
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Bielicki
Paediatric Infectious Diseases Research Group, St George's Healthcare NHS Trust and St George's University, London, UK.
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Sharland
D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D018562:Disease Transmission, Infectious / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic
Children; Guidelines; Healthcare-associated infection; Newborns