路透社华盛顿3月23日报道：简单的举措显著减少医院感染

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简单的举措显著减少医院感染

路透社华盛顿3月23日报道:Jasper 是一个在费城工作护送患者的护工，当他把纸捏成团塞进他的
手套时，他并不认为自己做了什么特别事情。
他的举措是一个很简单的行为，但是，医院流行病学专家认为这个举措却能够减少26~62%的医院感染的发生的行为！

Simple Techniques Slash Hospital Infections: Meeting

WASHINGTON (Reuters) Mar 23 - Jasper Palmer, a patient escort at Albert Einstein Healthcare Network in Philadelphia, didn't think he was doing anything special when he balled up his paper gown and stuffed it into one of his gloves.

But his technique is one of the simple innovations that have reduced infection rates at his and other hospitals by 26 percent to 62 percent, infection control experts told a meeting of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America in San Diego on Saturday.
Palmer understood that methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) was becoming more common. "I figured that the safest way to reduce the risk of cross-contamination was to get rid of these gowns," he said in a telephone interview. "What I was doing was... grabbing the outside of the gown then wrapping it up into a little ball and disposing of it inside my glove."
This made a compact package that had an unexpected bonus, said Dr. Jeff Cohn, chief quality officer at Einstein.
"One of the barriers to people not doing what they are supposed to do is if they go into a patient's room and see gowns and gloves spilling out over the trash can, they say 'well if I put a gown on, there is going to be no place to dispose of it'," Dr. Cohn said. "So if Jasper's practice winds up being everybody's practice... then people won't have that as an excuse."
Palmer's idea, which he has successfully taught to fellow workers, was one of three so-called Positive Deviance approaches that the CDC has found reduced infection rates at hospitals. PD is based on the premise that in any group there are natural problem-solvers.
"It is innovative activities, such as Positive Deviance, that may have a transformative impact on infection control efforts, suggesting that MRSA and possibly other drug-resistant infections need not be inevitable," Rosemary Gibson of the nonprofit Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which helped sponsor the CDC study, said in a statement.
Having the idea come from someone on the staff helped other staffers accept it more readily, said Dr. Cohn. "Jasper, who is a patient transporter, is the one being viewed as an expert and teaching quote unquote professionals -- nurses, doctors," he added. "This is flipping things on their heads."

http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/590033

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纸质隔离衣捏成团塞进手套里确实是个好办法:lol