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Prevalence of healthcare-associated infections in home hospitalization (HAD) at Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, France, 2007
Home hospitalization facilities (HAD) have always been excluded from national surveys on the prevalence of nosocomial infections. However, a new survey on the prevalence of...
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Monitoring to Guide and Evaluate a Healthcare Facility’s Hospital-Acquired Infection Prevention Policy: The Experience of the Mulhouse Hospital Center, France.
The purpose of this article is to describe the role of surveillance in the policy for combating healthcare-associated infections at the Mulhouse Hospital Center. Initially organized by...
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Investigation of a multi-organism foodborne illness outbreak. Stade Yves du Manoir, Montpellier (France), February 2010
Objectives - On Saturday, February 20, 2010, firefighters in the Hérault department reported to the Hérault Territorial Delegation of the Regional Health Agency (DT34-ARS) that...
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Regionalization of Surveillance for Syphilis and Other STIs: Principles and Initial Results in Languedoc-Roussillon (France), 2009.
Introduction - The RésIST network brings together clinicians who volunteer to report cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, and anogenital lymphogranuloma to the French Institute for Public...
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Factors Influencing General Practitioners’ Participation in Public Health Surveillance: The Merveille Survey, 2008
Strengthening disease surveillance systems in France requires greater involvement of general practitioners (GPs). Methods—A descriptive, cross-sectional survey was conducted across four...
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Q Fever in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. An epidemiological study
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Asthma and COPD: Hospitalization and Mortality Rates in France’s Overseas Departments and Metropolitan France, 2005–2007
Objective - This article presents hospitalization and mortality rates for asthma and COPD in Réunion and the French West Indies and compares them with those in mainland France. Methods -...
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Management of a hospital-community measles outbreak at the Reims University Hospital, January–March 2008
Introduction - On February 11, 2008, the reporting of three cases of measles among residents of the Reims metropolitan area triggered an investigation to document the outbreak, assess...
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Epidemiology of Dengue Fever in the French Departments of the Americas
Over the past few decades, the incidence of dengue has risen dramatically in tropical and subtropical regions, particularly in the Americas and the Caribbean. In the French Overseas...
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Vaccination coverage among healthcare students on clinical rotations at Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris hospitals in 2009. STUDYVAX survey.
Introduction - Healthcare students must follow the same vaccination recommendations as all healthcare professionals. There are currently no data on vaccination coverage (VC) for this...
