La Responsabilidad Social Corporativa en las instituciones educativas

El concepto de Responsabilidad Social Corporativa (RSC) surge como una forma de hacer de las organizaciones dedicadas a los negocios con repercusión en la forma de ser de las personas implicadas en esas operaciones (stakeholders o grupos de interés). Desde diversos organismos internacionales se propone hacer extensible esta perspectiva a todo tipo de organizaciones entre las que se encuentran las instituciones educativas. El trasplante de la noción a las instituciones educativas requiere una aclaración conceptual previa y una adecuada transmisión, teniendo en cuenta la fuerte inercia en la trasmisión de valores sociales propia de estas organizaciones. En este artículo aportamos nuestra definición de Responsabilidad Social Educativa, diferenciándola de conceptos semejantes y que podría llevar a equívocos y ofrecemos su- gerencias con las que hacer una adecuada comunicación institucional para que las instituciones educativas adopten con mayor intencionalidad y eficiencia esta forma de ser.The concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) emerges as a specific business organization’s work life that enhances the stakeholders and interest groups lifestyles. Various international organizations aim at promoting this dimension to all types of institutions including educational organizations. In this context, a conceptual clarification and communication is needed because of the strong inertia in the transmission of social values in academic institutions. In this paper, we propose a definition of Education Social Responsibility, covering aspects on how to establish measures to ensure effective educational institutional communication, allowing them to adopt this dimension more efficiently

International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium report, data summary of 50 countries for 2010-2015: Device-associated module

•We report INICC device-associated module data of 50 countries from 2010-2015.•We collected prospective data from 861,284 patients in 703 ICUs for 3,506,562 days.•DA-HAI rates and bacterial resistance were higher in the INICC ICUs than in CDC-NHSN's.•Device utilization ratio in the INICC ICUs was similar to CDC-NHSN's. Background: We report the results of International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) surveillance study from January 2010-December 2015 in 703 intensive care units (ICUs) in Latin America, Europe, Eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia, and Western Pacific. Methods: During the 6-year study period, using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Healthcare Safety Network (CDC-NHSN) definitions for device-associated health care-associated infection (DA-HAI), we collected prospective data from 861,284 patients hospitalized in INICC hospital ICUs for an aggregate of 3,506,562 days. Results: Although device use in INICC ICUs was similar to that reported from CDC-NHSN ICUs, DA-HAI rates were higher in the INICC ICUs: in the INICC medical-surgical ICUs, the pooled rate of central line-associated bloodstream infection, 4.1 per 1,000 central line-days, was nearly 5-fold higher than the 0.8 per 1,000 central line-days reported from comparable US ICUs, the overall rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia was also higher, 13.1 versus 0.9 per 1,000 ventilator-days, as was the rate of catheter-associated urinary tract infection, 5.07 versus 1.7 per 1,000 catheter-days. From blood cultures samples, frequencies of resistance of Pseudomonas isolates to amikacin (29.87% vs 10%) and to imipenem (44.3% vs 26.1%), and of Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates to ceftazidime (73.2% vs 28.8%) and to imipenem (43.27% vs 12.8%) were also higher in the INICC ICUs compared with CDC-NHSN ICUs. Conclusions: Although DA-HAIs in INICC ICU patients continue to be higher than the rates reported in CDC-NSHN ICUs representing the developed world, we have observed a significant trend toward the reduction of DA-HAI rates in INICC ICUs as shown in each international report. It is INICC's main goal to continue facilitating education, training, and basic and cost-effective tools and resources, such as standardized forms and an online platform, to tackle this problem effectively and systematically