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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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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).
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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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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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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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Mental health and job stress of nurses in surgical system: what should we care
BMC Psychiatry, 2023 Background Job stress has significant influence on the mental health of health care providers. The mental health and job stress of operating room nurses remain unclear.
Ling Wei +7 more
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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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Nosocomial infections in a Surgical Floor of the General Ba’qubah Hospital; Iraq
مجلة كلية الطب, 2016 Background: Prevention against nosocomial infection is an important issue of health care field and considered a challenge of patients’ since it reflects its effect on their quality of life.
Mohammed A. Al-Kharkhi +2 more
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