Contact precautions in the intensive care unit setting: 12 years of surveillance.

Autor: de Toledo Piza FM; Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil., Marra AR, Silva M Jr, Sampaio Camargo TZ, de Oliveira Figueiredo RA, Edmond MB
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: American journal of infection control [Am J Infect Control] 2013 Apr; Vol. 41 (4), pp. 371-2. Date of Electronic Publication: 2012 Oct 10.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2012.03.031
Abstrakt: The utilization of isolation precautions has increased in tertiary care hospitals due to the increase in colonization with multidrug-resistant organisms over time. We assessed the frequency of multidrug-resistant microorganisms responsible for implementation of contact precautions in the ICU of a tertiary care hospital over a 12-year period.
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Databáze: MEDLINE