Device-associated infection rates and extra length of stay in an intensive care unit of a university hospital in Wroclaw, Poland: International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium's (INICC) findings

Journal of Critical Care

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 105.e5-105.e10

  Kübler, Andrzej ^a   Duszynska, Wieslawa ^a   Rosenthal, Victor D ^b   Fleischer, Malgorzata ^a   Kaiser, Teresa ^a   Szewczyk, Ewa ^a   Barteczko Grajek, Barbara ^a  

^a WROCLAW MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Catheter associated urinary tract infection; Central line associated blood stream infection; Europe; Health care associated infection; Hospital infections; Intensive care unit; Length of stay; Nosocomial infection; Poland; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

CEFTAZIDIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; IMIPENEM; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM;

ACINETOBACTER; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DEVICE INFECTION; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; POLAND; PSEUDOMONAS; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

EID: 84856450254     PISSN: 08839441     EISSN: 15578615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrc.2011.05.018     Document Type: Article

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