Healthcare-associated infection rates: Measuring and comparing. Experiences from the German national nosocomial infection surveillance system (KISS) and from other surveillance systems;Nosokomiale infektionsraten: Messen und vergleichen: Erfahrungen mit dem Krankenhaus-infektions-surveillance-system (KISS) und anderen surveillance-systemen

Bundesgesundheitsblatt - Gesundheitsforschung - Gesundheitsschutz

Volumn 55, Issue 11-12, 2012, Pages 1363-1369

  Gastmeier, P ^a,b   Behnke, M ^a,b   Breier, A C ^a,b   Piening, B ^a,b   Schwab, F ^a,b   Dettenkofer, M ^b,c   Geffers, C ^a,b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Nationales Referenzzentrum für Die Surveillance von Nosokomialen Infektionen   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bloodstream infections; Healthcare associated infections; Pneumonia; Surgical site infections; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; EUROPE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; STATISTICS; SURGICAL INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; EUROPE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LENGTH OF STAY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84869433474     PISSN: 14369990     EISSN: 14371588     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00103-012-1551-y     Document Type: Article

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