Ospedale Sacro Cuore Don Calabria

Antimicrobial stewardship in practice: determinants of prescription behaviour and developing interventions to improve surgical prophylaxis in a Rwandan tertiary hospital—a mixed methods study using the behaviour change wheel

BACKGROUND: Behavioural sciences should be used to design and improve antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) interventions aiming surgical prophylaxis (SP). METHODS: A mixed-methods study at the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali, Rwanda. The study included an audit on SP practices...

DTT-based biofilm and conventional intraoperative cultures for the detection of prosthetic joint infections: a comparative study

BACKGROUND: Accurate diagnosis of prosthetic joint infection (PJI) remains challenging. Biofilm culture by sonication has been included according to EBJIS criteria; however, this method is associated with technical difficulties. Dithiothreitol pretreatment (DTT-P) biofilm culture...