Awareness among French healthcare workers of the transmission of multidrug resistant organisms: a large cross-sectional survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Much effort has been made over the last two decades to educate and train healthcare professionals working on antimicrobial resistance in French hospitals. However, little has been done in France to assess perceptions, attitudes and knowledge regarding multidrug resistant organisms (MDROs) and, more globally, these have never been evaluated in a large-scale population of medical and non-medical healthcare workers (HCWs). Our aim was to explore awareness among HCWs by evaluating their knowledge of MDROs and the associated control measures, by comparing perceptions between professional categories and by studying the impact of training and health beliefs.

Methods

A multicentre cross-sectional study was conducted in 58 randomly selected French healthcare facilities wit

SUBMITTER: Vaillant L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6852912 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature