Is there an association between nosocomial infection rates and bacterial cross transmissions?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 46-50

  Kola, Axel ^a,b   Schwab, Frank ^b,d   Bärwolff, Sina ^b   Eckmanns, Tim ^b,c   Weist, Klaus ^b   Dinger, Elke ^c   Klare, Ingo ^c   Witte, Wolfgang ^c   Ruden, Henning ^b,d   Gastmeier, Petra ^a,b,d  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d National Reference Centre for Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections   (Germany)

Author keywords

Benchmarking; Cross transmission; Infection control; Nosocomial infections; Public reporting; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; GENOTYPE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; GERMANY; INCIDENCE; INDWELLING CATHETER; INFECTION CONTROL; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 74049088099     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e3181b42a9b     Document Type: Article

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