Status of microbiological reports at partial provincial level annual academic conference of healthcare-associated infection from 2015 to 2017 / 中国感染控制杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To understand the present status of special reports relating to microbiology at China provincial-level annual academic conference of healthcare-associated infection (HAI), and provide basis for the training and capacity-building of HAI management staff.Methods The conference arrangements for annual academic conference of provincial HAI quality control centers and HAI management societies from January 2015 to May 2017 were collected, and the special reports on microbiology were summarized and analyzed.Results A total of 35 annual academic conferences held by 17 provinces/municipalities directly under the central government/autonomous regions were included in the study, most conferences (42.31％) were concentrated on the fourth quarter. 15 annual academic conferences were related to microbiology report, accounting for 5.91％ of the total reports, reporting time accounted for 4.81％ of total time. There were various forms of microbiological thematic reports, subject reports, literature exchange, and interactive exchange accounted for 68.96％, 24.14％, and 6.90％ respectively. The proportion of topics related to microbiology reports increased to a certain extent, but the proportion of reporting time decreased.Conclusion At present, the proportion and reporting time of microbiology reports in China provincial-level annual academic conference of HAI is relatively low, it is necessary to increase the number of microbiology reports in the future annual conference of HAI.