A Prospective Study of Nosocomial Infections in a Chronic Care Facility
| Autor: | Carole Brennen, A. J. Puntereri, Judith P. Brody, Bruce F. Farber |
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| Rok vydání: | 1984 |
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Male Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Hospitals Veterans Hospital Bed Capacity 300 to 499 Nursing care Ampicillin Epidemiology medicine Tobramycin Humans Prospective Studies Aged Chronic care Geriatrics Cross Infection business.industry Drug Resistance Microbial Middle Aged Pennsylvania medicine.disease Anti-Bacterial Agents Pneumonia Urinary Tract Infections Female Gentamicin Geriatrics and Gerontology Epidemiologic Methods business medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 32:499-502 |
| ISSN: | 0002-8614 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1984.tb02234.x |
| Popis: | To elucidate the epidemiology of nosocomial infections occurring in nursing homes and chronic care facilities, the authors undertook a prospective study of patients requiring two different levels of nursing care. The overall rate of infection was higher on the intermediate care ward than on the nursing home ward (1.35 versus 0.67 infections/100 patient care days). Pneumonias and symptomatic urinary tract infections accounted for 49 per cent of all infections. Eight of ten cases of pneumonia occurring on the nursing home ward were diagnosed in the winter months, and no case was diagnosed in the summer months. Resistance to gentamicin, tobramycin, ampicillin, and trimethoprim-sulfa was common among organisms causing symptomatic urinary tract infections. |
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