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Device-associated nosocomial infection rates in intensive care units in four Mexican public hospitals
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Ector Jaime Ramirez Barba, and others.
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Background: Routine surveillance of nosocomial infections has become an integral part of infection control and quality assurance in US hospitals.<o></o>
Methods: As part of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium, we performed a prospective nosocomial infection surveillance cohort study in 5 adult intensive care units of 4 Mexican public hospitals using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance system definitions. Site-specific nosocomial infection rates were calculated.<o></o>
Results: The overall nosocomial infection rate was 24.4% (257/1055) and 39.0 (257/6590) per 1000 patient days. The most common infection was catheter-associated bloodstream infection, 57.98% (149/257), followed by ventilator-associated pneumonia, 20.23% (52/257), and catheter-associated urinary tract infection, 21.79% (56/257). The overall rate of catheter-associated bloodstream infections was 23.1 per 1000 device-days (149/6450); ventilator-associated pneumonia rate was 21.8 per 1000 device-days<o></o>
(52/2390); and catheter-associated urinary tract infection rate was 13.4 per 1000 device-days (56/4184).<o></o>
Conclusion: Our rates are similar to other hospitals of <st1lace w:st="on">Latin America</st1lace> and higher than US hospitals.
(Am J Infect Control 2006;34:244-7.)<o></o>
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Full article at: http://www.inicc.org/trabajos/200.pdf
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> </o>Ector Jaime Ramirez Barba, and others.
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> </o>Background: Routine surveillance of nosocomial infections has become an integral part of infection control and quality assurance in US hospitals.<o
></o>Methods: As part of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium, we performed a prospective nosocomial infection surveillance cohort study in 5 adult intensive care units of 4 Mexican public hospitals using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance system definitions. Site-specific nosocomial infection rates were calculated.<o
></o>Results: The overall nosocomial infection rate was 24.4% (257/1055) and 39.0 (257/6590) per 1000 patient days. The most common infection was catheter-associated bloodstream infection, 57.98% (149/257), followed by ventilator-associated pneumonia, 20.23% (52/257), and catheter-associated urinary tract infection, 21.79% (56/257). The overall rate of catheter-associated bloodstream infections was 23.1 per 1000 device-days (149/6450); ventilator-associated pneumonia rate was 21.8 per 1000 device-days<o
></o>(52/2390); and catheter-associated urinary tract infection rate was 13.4 per 1000 device-days (56/4184).<o
></o>Conclusion: Our rates are similar to other hospitals of <st1
lace w:st="on">Latin America</st1lace> and higher than US hospitals. (Am J Infect Control 2006;34:244-7.)<o
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> </o>Credits juangarrison . . .
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> </o>Full article at: http://www.inicc.org/trabajos/200.pdf