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Strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia, ventilator-associated events, and nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia in acute-care hospitals: 2022 Update

open access: yesInfection control and hospital epidemiology, 2022
The purpose of this document is to highlight practical recommendations to assist acute care hospitals to prioritize and implement strategies to prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), ventilator-associated events (VAE), and non-ventilator hospital-
M. Klompas   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Wound Infection Rates and the Results of Antibiotic Susceptibility Tests in Severely Burned Patients

open access: yesMedicine Science, 2015
Background: Infection of burn wound is an important cause of mortality in burns Units in hospitals. The types of bacterial isolates and rapidly emerging antibiotics resistance are important factor in treatment of patients.
Mithaq Khider, Mazin ameen, Batool Mahdi
doaj   +1 more source

Characteristics and outcomes of pregnant women admitted to hospital with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection in UK: national population based cohort study

open access: yesBritish medical journal, 2020
Objectives To describe a national cohort of pregnant women admitted to hospital with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in the UK, identify factors associated with infection, and describe outcomes, including ...
M. Knight   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Risk stratification of patients admitted to hospital with covid-19 using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol: development and validation of the 4C Mortality Score

open access: yesBritish medical journal, 2020
Objective To develop and validate a pragmatic risk score to predict mortality in patients admitted to hospital with coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19). Design Prospective observational cohort study.
S. Knight   +352 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Update in cardiomyopathies and congestive heart failure

open access: yesCardiogenetics, 2012
This abstract book contains four reports and all abstracts presented to the Joint Meeting: Update in cardiomyopathies and congestive heart failure, 22-23 September 2011 - Naples, Italy, endorsed by the Working Group on Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases
The Heart Hospital, London, UK and Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Italy
doaj   +1 more source

Updating and validating the Charlson comorbidity index and score for risk adjustment in hospital discharge abstracts using data from 6 countries.

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Epidemiology, 2011
With advances in the effectiveness of treatment and disease management, the contribution of chronic comorbid diseases (comorbidities) found within the Charlson comorbidity index to mortality is likely to have changed since development of the index in ...
H. Quan   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

65.o Aniversario del Hospital de Clínicas Semana Académica 2018

open access: yesAnales de la Facultad de Medicina, 2021
Este año, la tradicional Semana Académica del Hospital de Clínicas de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de la República, Uruguay, tuvo lugar del 17 al 21 de setiembre.
Hospital de Clínicas
doaj  

Hospital nurse staffing and patient mortality, nurse burnout, and job dissatisfaction.

open access: yesJournal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2002
CONTEXT The worsening hospital nurse shortage and recent California legislation mandating minimum hospital patient-to-nurse ratios demand an understanding of how nurse staffing levels affect patient outcomes and nurse retention in hospital practice ...
L. Aiken   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Treatment of comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with induced hypothermia.

open access: yesNew England Journal of Medicine, 2002
BACKGROUND Cardiac arrest outside the hospital is common and has a poor outcome. Studies in laboratory animals suggest that hypothermia induced shortly after the restoration of spontaneous circulation may improve neurologic outcome, but there have been ...
Stephen A Bernard   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

COVID-19 length of hospital stay: a systematic review and data synthesis

open access: yesBMC Medicine, 2020
Background The COVID-19 pandemic has placed an unprecedented strain on health systems, with rapidly increasing demand for healthcare in hospitals and intensive care units (ICUs) worldwide.
Eleanor M. Rees   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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