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Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2022 (1) Background: The emergence of multidrug resistance enterococci is a major public health concern. This study aimed to determine the prevalence and antimicrobial resistance of enterococci isolated from blood cultures over a five-year period (2016–2020 ...
Ruth Mogokotleng +3 more
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African Journal of Laboratory Medicine, 2018 Healthcare-associated infections are a serious public health concern resulting in morbidity and mortality particularly in developing countries. The lack of information from Africa, the increasing rates of antimicrobial resistance and the emergence of new
Ashika Singh-Moodley +2 more
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Infectious disease outbreaks and increased complexity of care [PDF]
, 2015 Aim: This study examined the effects of healthcare-associated infectious disease outbreaks on nurses’ work in a large acute care hospital in Ontario, Canada. Background: The incidence of healthcare-associated infections has increased.
Baumann, A. +4 more
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Healthcare-Associated Infective Endocarditis—Surgical Perspectives
Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2022 Health-care-associated infective endocarditis (HCA-IE), a disease with a poor prognosis, has become increasingly important. As surgical treatment is frequently required, this review aims to outline surgical perspectives on HCA-IE. We searched PubMed to identify publications from January 1980 to March 2022.
Tatjana Musci, Herko Grubitzsch
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Using the best available data to estimate the cost of antimicrobial resistance: a systematic review
Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2019 Background Valuation of the economic cost of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is important for decision making and should be estimated accurately. Highly variable or erroneous estimates may alarm policy makers and hospital administrators to act, but they ...
Teresa M. Wozniak +3 more
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Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology, 2021 Objective: The National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Antibiotic Resistance (AR) Option is a valuable tool that can be used by acute-care hospitals to track and report antibiotic resistance rate data.
Christopher D. Evans +5 more
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Data requirements for electronic surveillance of healthcare-associated infections [PDF]
, 2014 Electronic surveillance for healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) is increasingly widespread. This is driven by multiple factors: a greater burden on hospitals to provide surveillance data to state and national agencies, financial pressures to be more ...
Klompas, Michael +5 more
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Effective elimination of Staphylococcal contamination from hospital surfaces by a bacteriophage-probiotic sanitation strategy: a monocentric study. [PDF]
, 2019 Persistent contamination of hospital surfaces and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) are recognized major causes of healthcare-associated infections (HAI). We recently showed that a probiotic-based sanitation (PCHS) can stably decrease surface pathogens and ...
BISI, Matteo +6 more
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Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control, 2020 Background The point prevalence survey of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antimicrobial use organized by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC-PPS) and the Global Point Prevalence Survey of antimicrobial consumption ...
Eline Vandael +7 more
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, 2019 Early detection of patients vulnerable to infections acquired in the hospital environment is a challenge in current health systems given the impact that such infections have on patient mortality and healthcare costs.
Ballesteros-Herráez, Juan Carlos +4 more
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