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Implementation of Infection Control Practices to Manage Hospital Acquired Infections
Journal of Pure and Applied Microbiology, 2019 Hospital-acquired infections affect millions of patients worldwide each year and result in massive preventable healthcare costs. Many of the organisms that cause these infections survive on routine healthcare equipment and are easily transmitted from ...
T. Jayasree , Mustafa Afzal
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Implementing change in infection control practice : an action research study in two intensive care units. [PDF]
, 1999 The increased emergence of bacterial resistance to antibiotics means that primary prevention of all hospital-acquired infections is essential, but ensuring that infection control practice is evidence-based requires reliable measurement of endemic ...
Sproat, Louise Jane
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Patient safety in Europe: medication errors and hospital-acquired infections [PDF]
, 2008 The Report was commissioned by the European Federation of Nurses Associations (EFN) in November 2007 in order to support its policy statements on Patient Safety (June 2004).
Smith, L.N. +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. +4 more
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Hospital Acquired Infections - A Review [PDF]
International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development, 2018 A nosocomial infection is defined as any infection occurring in a patient during hospital stay or receiving any healthcare facility in which the infection was not present at the time of hospital admission or acquired during hospitalisation.Malhotra S et al research findings reflected the prevalence of hospital acquired infections was highest in ICUs 33.
Riya Johnson +2 more
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Hospital acquired infection [PDF]
BMJ, 2007 Recent data published by the Health Protection Agency (HPA) show that each year in England around 7000 inpatients have methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteraemia and more than 50 000 inpatients aged 65 years and over have Clostridium difficile infections.1C difficile cases rose by 5.5% in 2006 compared with 2005, whereas MRSA cases ...
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Journal of Diabetes Research, 2022 Background. So far, type 2 diabetes (T2D) is considered as an independent risk factor for various cancers, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Methods.
Qin Bian +4 more
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Microbiology Spectrum, 2023 Most investigations into the distribution of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have focused exclusively on bloodborne infections within individual health care institutions for shorter time periods.
Bradley Segal +8 more
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Risk of hepatitis C virus infection among health care workers in their occupational practice
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2017 Introduction. Hepatitis C virus infection is a serious clinical, epidemiological, and social problem in Poland and worldwide. This type of infection is often registered as: hospital-acquired infection, infection among health care workers, infection of
Lidia Sierpińska
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Machine learning algorithms assist early evaluation of enteral nutrition in ICU patients
Frontiers in Nutrition, 2023 BackgroundThis study applied machine learning (ML) algorithms to construct a model for predicting EN initiation for patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) and identifying populations in need of EN at an early stage.MethodsThis study collected patient ...
Ya-Xi Wang +6 more
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