Neonatal nosocomial infections [PDF]
Jornal de Pediatria, 2001 OBJECTIVE: To review the current medical literature on neonatal nosocomial infections, emphasizing aspects of neonatal colonization, immune system and infection mechanisms, modes of transmission, epidemiology, surveillance and prevention of these infections, in addition to assessing peculiarities about etiologic agents and prophylactic recommendations.
M M, Mussi-Pinhata, S D, Nascimento
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Excess length of hospital stay due to healthcare acquired infections. Methodologies evaluation [PDF]
, 2019 BACKGROUND: Healthcare acquired infections (HAI) cause an increase of burden and in particular excess length of hospital stay (LOS) accounts for approximately up to 90% of total costs.
Giraldi, G. +4 more
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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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Nosocomial infections and nosocomial pneumonia
The American Journal of Surgery, 1996 Nosocomial infections are a major source of revenue loss, morbidity, and even mortality to surgical patients. This review presents current issues regarding nosocomial infections and nosocomial pneumonias. This study is a literature review that presents material on nosocomial infections in general and details regarding Clostridium difficile and ...
J, Hong, J M, Davis
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Changes of Interleukins in Patients with Nosocomial Pneumonia Against a Background of Traumatic Brain Injury: Role in the Diagnosis and Monitoring of Disease [PDF]
, 2017 Introduction. Nosocomial pneumonia (NP) is the second leading frequency and mortality among nosocomial infections. NP is a frequent complication of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Ilchenko, A. (Anastasiia)
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Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, 2002 Nosocomial infections and antimicrobial resistance are topics that have been intensely studied in human medicine because of their significant impact on human health. In recent years, concerns have been raised that the use of antibiotics in veterinary medicine, animal husbandry, and agriculture may be contributing to the development of resistance in ...
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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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British Journal of Surgery, 2004 Abstract Patient Safety Leading Article Series, 2004. This leading article continues our series on the general topic of patient safety. In the last issue of BJS the dysfunctional professional relationship was highlighted and the way the airlines have tried to counter the associated risks. The present article examines patient risk from an
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Treatment of Marburg and Ebola hemorrhagic fevers: A strategy for testing new drugs and vaccines under outbreak conditions. [PDF]
, 2008 The filoviruses, Marburg and Ebola, have the dubious distinction of being associated with some of the highest case-fatality rates of any known infectious disease-approaching 90% in many outbreaks.
A.G. Sprecher +105 more
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Selective digestive or oropharyngeal decontamination and topical oropharyngeal chlorhexidine for prevention of death in general intensive care : systematic review and network meta-analysis [PDF]
, 2014 Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Glen, John +3 more
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