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Nosocomial infections

 NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS: AN OVERVIEW

 NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS: AN OVERVIEW

... Nosocomial infections (NI) are one of the major complications for the healthcare professionals to ...of infections are respiratory tract, urinary tract, surgical site and blood ...

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Estimands to quantify prolonged hospital stay associated with nosocomial infections

Estimands to quantify prolonged hospital stay associated with nosocomial infections

... Length of stay (LOS) is one of the most important out- comes in clinical epidemiology since it is directly linked to patients’ morbidity and economic costs [1]. It is easy to measure and often routinely collected in ...

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Daily antibiotic cost of nosocomial infections in a Turkish university hospital

Daily antibiotic cost of nosocomial infections in a Turkish university hospital

... tion of hospital stay has been the major extra cost attrib- utable to nosocomial infections in many reports [2-4], but in comparative case-control study from our country, Yalcin et al. [8] found that cost ...

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Nosocomial infections and immunity: lesson from brain injured patients

Nosocomial infections and immunity: lesson from brain injured patients

... of nosocomial infection depends on two key factors: decreased host defences and colonization by pathogenic ...of nosocomial infections in brain-injured ...

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Knowledge of Nursing Personnel of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship Hospitals on Nosocomial Infections

Knowledge of Nursing Personnel of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship Hospitals on Nosocomial Infections

... (WHO), nosocomial infections are those that result from hospital treatment or ...a nosocomial infection is an infection that occurred in a newborn baby within 48 to 72 hours after birth, provided ...

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Why biofilms are important in nosocomial infections: the state of the art

Why biofilms are important in nosocomial infections: the state of the art

... Nowadays nosocomial infections are a reality in all hospital ...of infections, morbidity and mortality, and are recognised as being notoriously difficult to ...of nosocomial infection is the ...

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Prevalence of nosocomial infections in Iran: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Prevalence of nosocomial infections in Iran: A systematic review and meta-analysis

... Iran represents one of the developing countries, which faces with the issue of NIs imposing a high economic onus, in terms of high costs annually for the Ministry of Health (MoH) and private hospital managers. Several ...

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A review of nosocomial infections: epidemiology, transmission and control measures

A review of nosocomial infections: epidemiology, transmission and control measures

... The United States (US) Centres for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that annually approximately 1.7 million hospital- associated infections caused or contributed to the deaths of 99 000 Americans each ...

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A unified stochastic modeling framework for the spread of nosocomial infections

A unified stochastic modeling framework for the spread of nosocomial infections

... of nosocomial infections in hospital ...the nosocomial outbreak, usually by means of studying quantities of interest such as the reproduction number of each agent in the hospital ward, which is ...

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Prevalence of Nosocomial Infections in Hebron-Palestine Hospitals

Prevalence of Nosocomial Infections in Hebron- Palestine Hospitals

... tract infections in different clinical departments and to screen for the main pathogens that colonize and cause infection in infants in the NICU in order to provide a scientific basis for effective prevention and ...

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Nosocomial Infections in Pediatric Intensive Care Units in the United States

Nosocomial Infections in Pediatric Intensive Care Units in the United States

... confirmed infections, with a positive blood culture not related to infection at another site (excluding phlebitis), and clinical ...recorded. Nosocomial infections were considered ICU-associated, if ...

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Incidence, pathogens and resistance patterns of nosocomial infections at a rural hospital in Gabon

Incidence, pathogens and resistance patterns of nosocomial infections at a rural hospital in Gabon

... comial infections as defined by the CDC ...of nosocomial infections at the Albert Schweitzer hospital excluding the pediatric department was 46 cases in 12870 hospital days corresponding to an ...

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NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS: HOW KNOWLEDGE INFLUENCES PRACTICES AMONGST HEALTHCARE WORKERS

NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS: HOW KNOWLEDGE INFLUENCES PRACTICES AMONGST HEALTHCARE WORKERS

... regarding nosocomial infections control measures through regular trainings of the hospital staff in order to reduce the prevalence of nosocomial ...

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A study on common pathogens associated with nosocomial infections and their antibiotic sensitivity

A study on common pathogens associated with nosocomial infections and their antibiotic sensitivity

... via human personnel, aspiration of the infected pharyngeal or mouth secretions, exposure to invasive devices and procedures, surgery, impairment of immune mechanisms or overwhelming illness amplify colonized patients ...

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Knowledge Discovery in Microbiology Data: Analysis of Antibiotic Resistance in Nosocomial Infections

Knowledge Discovery in Microbiology Data: Analysis of Antibiotic Resistance in Nosocomial Infections

... of nosocomial infections by about one third at maxi- mum, even when optimal organization of the treatment process is ...of nosocomial infections has proven to be ineffective, as pathogens ...

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THE INCIDENCE OF NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS IN PATIENTS WITH ISOLATED SEVERE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY

THE INCIDENCE OF NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS IN PATIENTS WITH ISOLATED SEVERE TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY

... of nosocomial infections. Nosocomial infecti- ons are defined as infections occurred in the hospital en- vironment at least 48 hours from receiving patient for ...

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Nosocomial infections in critically ill patients

Nosocomial infections in critically ill patients

... resources, nosocomial infections increase the number of days a patient spends in the hospital, requiring additional medical care and hours spent providing patient ...costly infections divert funding ...

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Nosocomial Infections in a Morocco Burn Unit

Nosocomial Infections in a Morocco Burn Unit

... versus 20 days in the study of Cremer’s team [6]. Taylor’s and Cremer’s studies found incidences higher to ours but these authors did not precise the duration of urinary catheterization. Wurts [5] found a density ...

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Prevention and treatment of neonatal nosocomial infections

Prevention and treatment of neonatal nosocomial infections

... acquired infections threaten the survival and neurodevelopmental outcomes of infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit, and increase cost of ...of nosocomial infection is a critical patient ...

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Nosocomial Infections: A 360-degree Review

Nosocomial Infections: A 360-degree Review

... bacterial infections, specifically MRSA, and has been successfully used in the treatment of various types of nosocomial infections caused by MDR Gram-positive bacteria ...of nosocomial ...

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