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A hospital-wide epidemiologic study on nosocomial infections at the Philippine Children’s Medical Center: 2003

Loida B.T. Villanueva | Jaime A Santos

Discipline: medicine by specialism

 

Abstract:

Hospital-acquired infections are those that develop more than 48 hours after admission and which the patient did not have or was not incubating at the time of admission. The increasing trend of nosocomial infections in the past decade has ben attributed to the increasing use of antibiotics, invasive devices for monitoring and providing supportive care, and increasingly aggressive medical and surgical interventions (1,3). These infections cause a considerable impact on patient mortality, morbidity, patient care cost and length of hospital stay (2,4).



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