Abstract
Infection Prevention and Control is a Quality Standard and is crucial in all health care facilities. Many hospitals remain deficient in trained infection control professionals (ICPs), and now there is an acute awareness of the need to correct this shortfall. The objectives of the study were to describe the current status of ICP programs at ministry of health (MOH) and to evaluate the current status of infection prevention and control programs at health care facilities in kingdom of Saudi Arabia. A cross sectional interview and a self assessment study were conducted on infection prevention and control (IPC) program in Saudi Arabia. All the MOH hospital in all regions was randomly chosen to the study setting. The selection of facilities was done at random with a clear intention to include twenty regions. A random sample was taken from these hospitals with sample size 56 (55.4%), by Multi stage random sampling technique. Results showed that the total facility in all over the kingdom was 51.4% where central area covered the facility score 58.2%, followed by western area (54.8%), south (53.7%), east (46.3%), and lastly with (45.8%) north area. Survey revealed that the infrastructure for infection control program in Saudi Arabian hospitals remained underdeveloped. There were defects in the identified components of effective infection control programs.
Highlights
Infection Prevention and Control is a Quality Standard and is essential in all health care facilities for the wellbeing and safety of patients, staff, visitors and all who come within the scope of activities
Many hospitals remain deficient in trained infection control professionals (ICPs), and there is an acute awareness of the need to correct this shortfall
To our knowledge nobody evaluate the current status of infection prevention and control programs at health care facilities in kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the main purpose of this study is to describe the current status of ICP programs at ministry of health (MOH) health facilities
Summary
Infection Prevention and Control is a Quality Standard and is essential in all health care facilities for the wellbeing and safety of patients, staff, visitors and all who come within the scope of activities. Each healthcare facility designs and establishes a coordinated program to identify and reduce the risk of infection acquisition and transmission among patients, staff, and visitors [1]. IPC programs have been shown to be both clinically and cost-effective [3]-[6] providing important cost savings in terms of fewer Health care-associated infections (HAIs), reduced length of hospital stay, less antimicrobial resistance and decreased costs of treatment for infections [7]-[9]. The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) has outlined the human and economic perspectives of HAIs, demonstrating the rationale and need for appropriate and adequate resources for IPC programs
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