Características motivacionales y actitud hacia la ecoeficiencia en trabajadores de la universidad pública peruana

The investigation was aimed at establishing the association between the motivational characteristics and the eco-efficiency attitude among workers at the Peruvian public university. The study was carried out on the basis of the quantitative methodology, similarity corresponds to the type of correlational descriptive study with a sample of 148 participants. The data collection instruments included the Labor Motivation Cuestionary and the Ecoefficient Acttitud Cuestionario, composed in each case by 30 Likert-type items. According to the results, the motivational characteristics tend to favor the motivation of workers, the majority of them present a high disposition for the efficient use of resources and through the approach of Chi Cuadrado, an asymptotic (bilateral) significance is obtained below the level of significance (p<0.05). It was concluded that there is dependence between the motivational characteristic variables with the attitude towards eco-efficiency in university workers. In that sense, motivational characteristics could help predict the attitude towards eco-efficiency.La investigación se orientó a establecer la asociación entre las características motivacionales y la actitud hacia la ecoeficiencia en los trabajadores de la universidad pública peruana. El estudio se realizó en base a la metodología cuantitativa, asimismo corresponde al tipo de estudio descriptivo correlacional con una muestra de 148 participantes. Los instrumentos de recolección de datos fueron el Cuestionario de Motivación Laboral y el Cuestionario de Actitud Ecoeficiente, compuestos en cada caso por 30 ítems de tipo Likert. Según los resultados, las características motivacionales tienden a favorecer la motivación de los trabajadores, la mayoría de ellos presentan una alta disposición hacia el uso eficiente de los recursos y mediante la prueba de Chi Cuadrado se obtuvo una significación asintótica (bilateral) inferior al nivel de significancia (p<0,05). Se concluyó que existe dependencia entre las variables características motivacionales con la actitud hacia la ecoeficiencia en los trabajadores universitarios. En ese sentido, las características motivacionales podrían ayudar a predecir la actitud hacia la ecoeficiencia

International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortiu (INICC) report, data summary of 43 countries for 2007-2012. Device-associated module

We report the results of an International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) surveillance study from January 2007-December 2012 in 503 intensive care units (ICUs) in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe. During the 6-year study using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) U.S. National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) definitions for device-associated health care–associated infection (DA-HAI), we collected prospective data from 605,310 patients hospitalized in the INICC's ICUs for an aggregate of 3,338,396 days. Although device utilization in the INICC's ICUs was similar to that reported from ICUs in the U.S. in the CDC's NHSN, rates of device-associated nosocomial infection were higher in the ICUs of the INICC hospitals: the pooled rate of central line–associated bloodstream infection in the INICC's ICUs, 4.9 per 1,000 central line days, is nearly 5-fold higher than the 0.9 per 1,000 central line days reported from comparable U.S. ICUs. The overall rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia was also higher (16.8 vs 1.1 per 1,000 ventilator days) as was the rate of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (5.5 vs 1.3 per 1,000 catheter days). Frequencies of resistance of Pseudomonas isolates to amikacin (42.8% vs 10%) and imipenem (42.4% vs 26.1%) and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates to ceftazidime (71.2% vs 28.8%) and imipenem (19.6% vs 12.8%) were also higher in the INICC's ICUs compared with the ICUs of the CDC's NHSN