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Infection due to travel-related carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae, a largely underestimated phenomenon in Belgium.
persons and services (European Union) contributes to an increase in foreign healthcare workers (HCW) in Belgian hospitals. Residents from nursing homes located at the country borders can be another ...
Pleuromutilins: use in food-producing animals in the European Union, development of resistance and impact on human and animal health.
from different European countries, as only a limited number of antimicrobials are available for the treatment of swine dysentery where resistance to these antimicrobials is already common and widespread. ...
Epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection in Belgium: Report 2014
United Kingdom, and the Netherlands. International comparisons indicate that Belgium has incidence rates of CDI in the mid-range of other European countries and lower than that in the United States. There ...
Preventable proportion of severe infections acquired in intensive care units: case-mix adjusted estimations from patient-based surveillance data.
observed cases. RESULTS: Data for 78,222 patients admitted for more than 2 days to 525 ICU s in 6 European countries from 2005 to 2008 were available for analysis. We calculated that 52% of VAP and 69% of BSI ...
Development and assessment of national performance indicators for infection prevention and control and antimicrobial stewardship in European long-term care facilities.
increasing importance. AIM: To develop consensus national performance indicators (NPI s) for infection control (ICPI) and antimicrobial stewardship (ASPI) in LTCF s, and assess the performance of 32 European countries ...
Prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in intensive care units: an international online survey.
countries not included in the European estimates are broadly comparable. CONCLUSIONS: This study shows a low compliance with VAP prevention practices, as reported by ICU doctors in Europe and elsewhere, and ...
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) pilot point prevalence survey of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use.
European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control was piloted across Europe. Variables were collected at national, hospital and patient level in 66 hospitals from 23 countries. A patient-based and ...
Indications for antimicrobial prescribing in European nursing homes: results from a point prevalence survey.
METHODS: Data were obtained from a point prevalence survey conducted in 323 NH s across 21 European countries. A resident questionnaire had to be completed for each resident receiving an antimicrobial, ...
Parenteral versus oral administration of systemic antimicrobials in European nursing homes: a point-prevalence survey.
antimicrobials were collected by means of a point-prevalence survey. Logistic regression was used to analyse the data. RESULTS: Based on data from 21 European countries for 2046 antimicrobial prescriptions, an ...
Clinical outcomes of health-care-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance in patients admitted to European intensive-care units: a cohort study.
bloodstream infections and pneumonia. METHODS: We analysed data collected prospectively from intensive-care units that reported according to the European standard protocol for surveillance of ...