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Prevalence of healthcare-associated infections, estimated incidence and composite antimicrobial resistance index in acute care hospitals and long-term care facilities: results from two European point prevalence surveys, 2016 to 2017
Eurosurveillance, Volume 23, Issue 46 (2018) Keywords: Acute care hospitals Antimicrobial resistance antimicrobial use Healthcare-associated infection long-term care facilities Abstract: Point prevalence surveys of ...
Antimicrobial use in European acute care hospitals: results from the second point prevalence survey (PPS) of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use, 2016 to 2017
Acute care hospitals antimicrobial use Healthcare-associated infection Abstract: Antimicrobial agents used to treat infections are life-saving. Overuse may result in more frequent adverse effects and ...
Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis
Control point prevalence survey of health-care-associated infections in European acute care hospitals in 2011-12 to estimate the number of non- BSI s. We developed disease outcome models for five types of ...
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) pilot point prevalence survey of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use.
adult Abstract: A standardised methodology for a combined point prevalence survey (PPS) on healthcare-associated infections (HAI s) and antimicrobial use in European acute care hospitals developed by the ...
Infections in residents of nursing homes.
homes. While the reasons for preventing infections are the same in nursing homes and in acute hospitals, several considerations relevant to prevention of infection differ in nursing homes. Infection ...
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization is associated with higher mortality in nursing home residents with impaired cognitive status.
excess mortality was restricted to residents with impaired cognitive function, probably reflecting differences in therapeutic approaches, in delay of diagnosis of pneumonia and other acute disorders in ...
Molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in nursing homes: a cross-sectional study.
those in the acute care facilities; only their relative prevalence differed. Clone 2 took epidemic proportions in five of these nursing homes. Health Topics: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) Category: A1 ...
Epidemiology of nosocomial bloodstream infections in Belgium, 1992-1996.
the Belgian National Programme for the Surveillance of Hospital Infections (NSIH project) are reported. From October 1992 to September 1996, 117 hospitals (59.1% of Belgian acute-care institutions) ...
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus epidemiology and control in Belgian hospitals, 1991 to 1995. Groupement pour le Dépistage, l'Etude et la Prévention des Infections Hospitalières.
surveys; infection control physicians from acute-care hospitals in Belgium. INTERVENTION: Publication of national guidelines for MRSA control in 1993. RESULTS: The participation rate in surveys ranged from ...
International comparison of results of infection surveillance: The Netherlands versus Belgium.
surgical wound infections (SWI). SETTING: Thirty-five and 62 acute-care hospitals in The Netherlands (NL) and Belgium (B), respectively, from October 1, 1991, to June 30, 1992. RESULTS: The participation was ...