作者
Victor D Rosenthal, Hu Bijie, Dennis G Maki, Yatin Mehta, Anucha Apisarnthanarak, Eduardo A Medeiros, Hakan Leblebicioglu, Dale Fisher, Carlos Álvarez-Moreno, Ilham Abu Khader, Marisela Del Rocío González Martínez, Luis E Cuellar, Josephine Anne Navoa-Ng, Rédouane Abouqal, Humberto Guanche Garcell, Zan Mitrev, María Catalina Pirez García, Asma Hamdi, Lourdes Dueñas, Elsie Cancel, Vaidotas Gurskis, Ossama Rasslan, Altaf Ahmed, Souha S Kanj, Olber Chavarría Ugalde, Trudell Mapp, Lul Raka, Cheong Yuet Meng, Sameeh Ghazal, Achilleas Gikas, Leonardo Pazmiño Narváez, Nepomuceno Mejía, Nassya Hadjieva, May Osman Gamar Elanbya, María Eugenia Guzmán Siritt, Kushlani Jayatilleke
发表日期
2012/6/1
期刊
American journal of infection control
卷号
40
期号
5
页码范围
396-407
出版商
Mosby
简介
The results of a surveillance study conducted by the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) from January 2004 through December 2009 in 422 intensive care units (ICUs) of 36 countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Europe are reported. During the 6-year study period, using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN; formerly the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance system [NNIS]) definitions for device-associated health care-associated infections, we gathered prospective data from 313,008 patients hospitalized in the consortium’s ICUs for an aggregate of 2,194,897 ICU bed-days. Despite the fact that the use of devices in the developing countries’ ICUs was remarkably similar to that reported in US ICUs in the CDC’s NHSN, rates of device-associated nosocomial infection were significantly higher in the ICUs of the INICC …
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