Burden of healthcare-associated infections at six tertiary-care hospitals in Saudi Arabia: A point prevalence survey
| العنوان: | Burden of healthcare-associated infections at six tertiary-care hospitals in Saudi Arabia: A point prevalence survey |
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| المؤلفون: | Ayman El Gammal, Aiman El-Saed, Wafa Al Nasser, Asim Alsaedi, Syed Nazeer, Hanan H. Balkhy, Majid Alshamrani |
| المصدر: | Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. 40:355-357 |
| بيانات النشر: | Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2019. |
| سنة النشر: | 2019 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Adult, Male, Microbiology (medical), Point prevalence survey, Healthcare associated infections, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Epidemiology, Urinary system, Saudi Arabia, Prevalence, MEDLINE, Bacteremia, 030501 epidemiology, Tertiary care, Tertiary Care Centers, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Surveys and Questionnaires, medicine, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Young adult, Child, Aged, Cross Infection, business.industry, Infant, Newborn, Infant, Pneumonia, Middle Aged, medicine.disease, Infectious Diseases, Child, Preschool, Urinary Tract Infections, Female, 0305 other medical science, business |
| الوصف: | A point prevalence survey was conducted on May 11, 2017, among inpatients at 6 hospitals in Saudi Arabia. The overall point prevalence was 6.8% (114 of 1,666). The most common types of infections were pneumonia (27.2%), urinary tract infections (20.2%), and bloodstream infections (10.5%). Approximately 19.2% of healthcare-associated infections were device associated. |
| تدمد: | 1559-6834 0899-823X |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::6a302cbc28a224053bc7f1cd3c5f2487 https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2018.338 |
| حقوق: | CLOSED |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....6a302cbc28a224053bc7f1cd3c5f2487 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 15596834 0899823X |
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