Background Health-care-associated infection is the most frequent result of unsafe patient
care worldwide, but few data are available from the developing world. We aimed to assess …

A systematic literature review and meta-analysis of the burden of healthcare-associated
infections (HAIs) in Southeast Asia was performed on 41 studies out of the initially identified …

Antibiotic resistance is a global crisis driven by appropriate and inappropriate antibiotic use
to treat human illness and promote animal growth. The antimicrobial resistance epidemic …

The recent COVID‐19 pandemic and the accelerating rise of deaths associated with
antibiotic‐resistant bacterial strains have highlighted the global health and economic threats …

Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most common surgical complications in the world,
particularly in developing countries. This study aimed to estimate the incidence and …

Objective To establish current knowledge of patient safety and quality of care in developing
countries in Southeast Asia, current interventions and the knowledge gaps. Study design …

Objective: Colorectal cancer is still one of the most common causes of cancer related deaths
in the world despite improvements in diagnosis and treatment modalities, and application of …

Abstract Introduction Surgical Site Infections contribute significantly to increased health care
costs in terms of prolonged hospital stay and lost work days. The problem was largely …

Objective: To determine the incidence of and risk factors for surgical-site infections (SSIs)
after abdominal surgery. Design: A cohort study was conducted from January to June 1998 …

Background: Surgical site infections (SSI) add substantially to the morbidity of surgical
patients. Our hypothesis was that the SSI rate is high in our setting, but there were no data …