How do we evaluate the cost of nosocomial infection? The ECONI protocol: an incidence study with nested case-control evaluating cost and quality of life [PDF]
, 2019 Introduction Healthcare-associated or nosocomial infection (HAI) is distressing to patients and costly for the National Health Service (NHS). With increasing pressure to demonstrate cost-effectiveness of interventions to control HAI and notwithstanding ...
Abigail Mullings +12 more
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Sepsis and Nosocomial Infection: Patient Characteristics, Mechanisms, and Modulation
Frontiers in Immunology, 2018 Sepsis is a leading cause of death worldwide. After initial trials modulating the hyperinflammatory phase of sepsis failed, generations of researchers have focused on evaluating hypo-inflammatory immune phenotypes.
S. Denstaedt, B. Singer, T. Standiford
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The transmission of nosocomial pathogens in an intensive care unit: a space–time clustering and structural equation modelling approach [PDF]
, 2010 We investigated the incidence of cases of nosocomial pathogens and risk factors in an intensive treatment unit ward to determine if the number of cases is dependent on location of patients and the colonization/infection history of the ward.
A. G. O'DONNELL +6 more
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Tattooing and piercing--the need for guidelines in EU. [PDF]
, 2006 As in Amsterdam [1], the impetus for UK guidelines for hygienic tattooing came from an outbreak of hepatitis B caused in 1978 by a tattooist. The outbreak resulted in 30 primary and three secondary cases [2].
Noah, Norman
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Results from the Scottish national HAI prevalence survey [PDF]
, 2008 A national point prevalence survey was undertaken over the period of one calendar year in Scotland from October 2005 to October 2006. The prevalence of healthcare-associated infection (HAI) was 9.5% in acute hospitals and 7.3% in non-acute hospitals. The
Allardice, G.M. +7 more
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Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteriuria as a Predictor of In-Hospital Mortality in Patients with Staphylococcus Aureus Bacteremia. Results of a Retrospective Cohort Study [PDF]
, 2020 Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection (SA-BSI) is an infection with increasing morbidity and mortality. Concomitant Staphylococcus aureus bacteriuria (SABU) frequently occurs in patients with SA-BSI.
Behnke, Michael +6 more
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Nosocomial infection and its molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance.
BioScience Trends, 2016 Nosocomial infection is a kind of infection, which is spread in various hospital environments, and leads to many serious diseases (e.g. pneumonia, urinary tract infection, gastroenteritis, and puerperal fever), and causes higher mortality than community ...
Ju-feng Xia, Jianjun Gao, W. Tang
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Biosafety and Health, 2023 The objective of this study was to investigate the outbreak of echovirus 11 (ECHO 11) infection in newborns at a hospital in Guangdong Province, China, and to study the effectiveness of prevention and control measures to infer the epidemiological ...
Chunxiao Fang +4 more
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Emergency Medicine International, 2022 Objective. To explore the application effect of health education based on phased transition theory model in the continuous nursing for patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Method.
Hongmei Xiao, Jun Ye
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Epidemiology and infection - going electronic after 100 years [PDF]
, 2005 Epidemiology and Infection became 100 years old in 2001. Its powers and influence however do not appear to have diminished, and, as the Senior Editor appointed in its 101st year, I am greatly honoured to be so closely associated with it.
Noah, N
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