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Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in Belgian nursing homes: results of three point prevalence surveys between 2010 and 2016
1.4-2.7%) in HALT-1 to 3.2% (95% CI: 2.2-4.2%) in HALT-2 and 2.7% (95% CI: 2.1-3.4%) in HALT-3. Our post-hoc analysis on the cohort (n = 25 NH s) found similar trends. In all three surveys, respiratory tract ...
Point prevalence survey of antimicrobial use and healthcare-associated infections in Belgian acute care hospitals: results of the Global-PPS and ECDC-PPS 2017.
Global- PPS (countrywide participation rate: 81.4%, 28,007 patients). Overall, a crude prevalence of patients with at least one antimicrobial of 27.1% (95% confidence interval (CI) 26.5-27.6%) was found. ...
Care Infections & Antibiotic Resistance in Belgium
stabilizing in 2016. The hand hygiene campaigns held biannually since 2005, which reduce-among many other initiatives- the spread of these bacteria through direct contact, contribute to this evolution. Also in ...
National influences on catheter-associated bloodstream infection rates: practices among national surveillance networks participating in the European HELICS project.
from OR: 2.3; 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.5-10.2; to OR: 12.8; 95% CI: 4.4-37.5; in reference to the country with the lowest CVC- BSI rates] and type of hospital 'university' (OR: 2.08; 95% ...