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Patient Safety Related to Microbiological Contamination of the Environment of a Multi-Profile Clinical Hospital by Marlena Robakowska; Marek Bronk; Anna Tyrańska-Fobke; Daniel Ślęzak; Jakub Kraszewski; Łukasz Balwicki is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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Nosocomial infections pose a serious burden for hospitals, patients, and the entire society. The aim of the study was to assess the microbiological cleanliness of the hospital environment through quantitative and qualitative analysis of microbiological contamination of air and surfaces in inpatient treatment facilities, based on the example of a large clinical hospital in Poland. Data were collected between 2012 and 2018 in premises of a large teaching hospital in Gdansk using the sedimentation method and the impact method using the Aerideal apparatus (Biomerieux). In the analyzed clinical center, the microbiological cleanliness tests in most of the hospital rooms in the analyzed period showed an acceptable number of saprophytic microorganisms. Of all the tested samples, 1159 (21.8%) were positive, indicating the presence of microorganisms in the tested sample. Species potentially pathogenic for hospital patients were identified, constituting 20.8% of all positive samples (4.6% of all samples). Significantly higher proportion of microorganisms potentially dangerous to patients were isolated from sanitary facilities. Due to the potentially pathogenic microorganisms detected in the t
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- Author
- Marlena Robakowska; Marek Bronk; Anna Tyrańska-Fobke; Daniel Ślęzak; Jakub Kraszewski; Łukasz Balwicki
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)