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An international survey of the prevalence of hospital-acquired infection.
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Evidence is established that hospital infection is a common and serious problem throughout the world and in children the commonest infections were of the lower respiratory tract, of the skin and gastroenteritis, and in the elderly, urinary-tract infections predominated.About:
This article is published in Journal of Hospital Infection.The article was published on 1988-02-01. It has received 230 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Hospital-acquired infection & Prevalence.read more
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Antimicrobial resistance in developing countries.
TL;DR: Better access to diagnostic laboratories is needed, as well as improved surveillance of the emergence of resistance, better regulation of antibiotics' use, and better education of the public, physicians, and veterinarians in the appropriate use of drugs.
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Epidemiologic Background of Hand Hygiene and Evaluation of the Most Important Agents for Scrubs and Rubs
Günter Kampf,Axel Kramer +1 more
TL;DR: Long-lasting improvement of compliance with hand hygiene protocols can be successful if an effective and accessible alcohol-based hand rub with a proven dermal tolerance and an excellent user acceptability is supplied, accompanied by education of health care workers and promotion of the use of the product.
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Malnutrition is an independent factor associated with nosocomial infections
Stéphane M. Schneider,Patricia Veyres,Xavier Pivot,Anne-Marie Soummer,Patrick Jambou,Jérôme Filippi,Emmanuel Van Obberghen,Xavier Hébuterne +7 more
TL;DR: In non-selected hospitalized patients, malnutrition assessed with a simple and objective marker is an independent risk factor for nosocomial infections, and an early screening for malnutrition may therefore be helpful to reduce the high prevalence of NI.
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Surgical site infection – a European perspective of incidence and economic burden
David J. Leaper,Harry van Goor,Jacqueline Reilly,Nicola Petrosillo,Heinrich K. Geiss,Antonio J. Torres,Anne Berger +6 more
TL;DR: This retrospective review of reported surgical site infection rates in Europe was undertaken to obtain an estimated scale of the problem and the associated economic burden and suggests that the true rate of SSIs is likely to have been previously under‐reported.
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Complications of hysterectomy.
TL;DR: Risk factors associated with specific types of complications associated with benign hysterectomy are reviewed, methods to prevent and recognize complications, and appropriate management of complications are reviewed.
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National prevalence survey of hospital-acquired infections in Italy, 1983.
TL;DR: In 1983 a national prevalence survey was conducted in Italy to discover the general distribution of infection among patients in public hospitals, finding hospital-acquired infections were more frequent in intensive care units and in geriatric, orthopaedic and surgical wards.
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Prevalence of nosocomial infection and infection control in Denmark.
Ole B. Jepsen,Nikolaj Mortensen +1 more
TL;DR: Two centrally planned cross-sectional prevalence surveys were conducted in several Danish hospitals to estimate rates of nosocomial and community-acquired infection, and antibiotic consumption, and there was a need for a further study on the use of bacteriological reports for the surveillance of Nosocomial infection in this country.
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Prevalence of Hospital-Associated Infections in Five Swedish Hospitals in November 1975
TL;DR: A prevalence study of this order of size seems adequate to assess the overall rate of hospital-associated infections in Sweden as compared to other countries, however, differences in prevalence rates between hospitals and clinics should be interpreted with great care.