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Impact of adherence to individual quality-of-care indicators on the prognosis of bloodstream infection due to Staphylococcus aureus: a prospective observational multicentre cohort [PDF]

, 2022
Objectives To analyse the adherence and impact of quality-of-care indicators (QCIs) in the management of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection in a prospective and multicentre cohort. Methods Analysis of the prospective, multicentre international S.
Escrihuela-Vidal, Francesc, Kaasch, Achim J, Thwaites, Guy, von Cube, Maja, Scarborough, Matt   +4 more
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Clinical and economic impact of intensive care unit-acquired bloodstream infections in Taiwan: a nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study

BMJ Open, 2020
Objectives To estimate the clinical and economic impact of intensive care unit-acquired bloodstream infections in Taiwan.Design Retrospective cohort study.Setting Nationwide Taiwanese population in the National Health Insurance Research Database and the ...
Shu-Chen Kuo, Yung-Chih Wang, Shu-Man Shih, Yung-Tai Chen, Chao Agnes Hsiung   +4 more
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Central line-associated bloodstream infections in patients with COVID-19 [PDF]

Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
Objective: to investigate the association between central line-associated bloodstream infections and clinical and care variables of intensive care unit patients with COVID-19 hospitalized at a reference public health institution. Method: a case-control
Nicole Caetano Acosta, Rodrigo do Nascimento Ceratti, Marina Scherer Santos, Simone de Souza Fantin, Fernanda Fuzinatto, Omar Pereira de Almeida Neto, Eneida Rejane Rabelo-Silva   +6 more
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Incidence of catheter-related bloodstream infections following ultrasound-guided central venous catheterization: a systematic review and meta-analysis

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2022
Background Ultrasonographic guidance is widely used for central venous catheterization. Several studies have revealed that ultrasound-guided central venous catheterization increases the rate of success during the first attempt and reduces the procedural ...
Jun Takeshita, Kazuya Tachibana, Yasufumi Nakajima, Nobuaki Shime   +3 more
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Hospital-acquired, laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infection: increased hospital stay and direct costs. [PDF]

, 2002
OBJECTIVES: To determine increased hospital stay and direct costs attributable to hospital-acquired, laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infection (BSI), and to evaluate the matching variable length of stay (LOS).
NOAH N., Noah, Norman, Orsi, Giovanni Battista, DI STEFANO L., Di Stefano, Lidia   +4 more
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Bundle Approach to Reduce Bloodstream Infections in Neutropenic Hematologic

Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2015
Introduction: The objective of the study was to reduce, by a bundle of interventions, the global bloodstream infections and catheterrelated bloodstream infections rates in neutropenic hematology patients with a long-term central venous catheter ...
Jose Manuel Martinez, Luís Leite, Daniela França, Rita Capela, Luísa Viterbo, Natalina Varajão, Ângelo Martins, Isabel Oliveira, Nélson Domingues, Ilídia Moreira, Ana Santo, Filipe Trigo, Jose Mariz   +12 more
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Modeling Pneumonia-Induced Bloodstream Infection Using Graph Theory to Estimate Hospital Mortality

Technologies, 2020
Hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) bloodstream infections comprise a major cause of crude hospital mortality. This is a cross-sectional study that used claims data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (N = 565,875).
Dimitrios Zikos, Maria Athanasopoulou
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Evaluating the Trends of Bloodstream Infections among Pediatric and Adult Patients at a Teaching Hospital of Kathmandu, Nepal: Role of Drug Resistant Pathogens

Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology, 2017
Bloodstream infections (BSIs) are among the significant causes of morbidity and mortality for patients of all age groups. However, very little is known about the trends of bacterial bloodstream infections and antimicrobial susceptibilities among ...
Narayan Prasad Parajuli, Hridaya Parajuli, Roshan Pandit, Jyotsna Shakya, Puspa Raj Khanal   +4 more
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Estimating the number of infections caused by antibiotic-resistant Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae in 2014: a modelling study

The Lancet Global Health, 2018
Summary: Background: The number of infections caused by resistant organisms is largely unknown. We estimated the number of infections worldwide that are caused by the WHO priority pathogens third-generation cephalosporin-resistant and carbapenem ...
Elizabeth Temkin, DrPH, Noga Fallach, MA, Jonatan Almagor, PhD, Beryl Primrose Gladstone, PhD, Evelina Tacconelli, ProfMD, Yehuda Carmeli, ProfMD   +5 more
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Polymicrobial bloodstream infections per se do not increase mortality compared to monomicrobial bloodstream infections in sepsis patients: a Korean nationwide sepsis cohort study

BMC Infectious Diseases
Background There is limited information about the outcomes of polymicrobial bloodstream infections in patients with sepsis. We aimed to investigate outcomes of polymicrobial bloodstream infections compared to monomicrobial bloodstream infections. Methods
Su Yeon Lee, Mi Hyeon Park, Dong Kyu Oh, Chae-Man Lim, on behalf of the Korean Sepsis Alliance (KSA) investigators   +4 more
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