The incidence of cross infections in Imam Reza hospital, Mashhad, Iran

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Cross Infections (CIs) are considered as a major public health problem worldwide. They cause delay in recovery, increased mortality and morbidity. The purpose of this study is to report the incidence of CIs in our teaching hospital during a 23-month period. MATERIALS AND M...

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Autores principales: Javanbakht, A, Askari, E, Danesh, L, Moghadas, N, Mostafavi, I, NaderiNasab, M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2012
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3507306/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23205248
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author Javanbakht, A
Askari, E
Danesh, L
Moghadas, N
Mostafavi, I
NaderiNasab, M
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description BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Cross Infections (CIs) are considered as a major public health problem worldwide. They cause delay in recovery, increased mortality and morbidity. The purpose of this study is to report the incidence of CIs in our teaching hospital during a 23-month period. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 76766 patients from 2009 to 2011 admitted to 17 wards of Imam Reza Hospital in Mashhad were studied for CIs. Patients’ age, sex, site of infection, ward of hospitalization and type of microbial infections were collected and analyzed by SPSS 16.0. CONCLUSION: Results of the present study showed that the incidence of CIs was low (i.e.<1%) in our hospital and Acinetobacter (25.8%, n = 176) was the most frequent pathogen.
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spelling pubmed-35073062012-12-01 The incidence of cross infections in Imam Reza hospital, Mashhad, Iran Javanbakht, A Askari, E Danesh, L Moghadas, N Mostafavi, I NaderiNasab, M Iran J Microbiol Short Communication BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Cross Infections (CIs) are considered as a major public health problem worldwide. They cause delay in recovery, increased mortality and morbidity. The purpose of this study is to report the incidence of CIs in our teaching hospital during a 23-month period. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, 76766 patients from 2009 to 2011 admitted to 17 wards of Imam Reza Hospital in Mashhad were studied for CIs. Patients’ age, sex, site of infection, ward of hospitalization and type of microbial infections were collected and analyzed by SPSS 16.0. CONCLUSION: Results of the present study showed that the incidence of CIs was low (i.e.<1%) in our hospital and Acinetobacter (25.8%, n = 176) was the most frequent pathogen. Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2012-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3507306/ /pubmed/23205248 Text en © 2012 Iranian Society of Microbiology & Tehran University of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Moghadas, N
Mostafavi, I
NaderiNasab, M
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title The incidence of cross infections in Imam Reza hospital, Mashhad, Iran
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title_short The incidence of cross infections in Imam Reza hospital, Mashhad, Iran
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