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Assessing the magnitude and trends in hospital acquired infections in Canadian hospitals through sequential point prevalence surveys

BACKGROUND: Healthcare acquired infections (HAI) are an important public health problem in developed countries, but comprehensive data on trends over time are lacking. Prevalence surveys have been used as a surrogate for incidence studies and can be readily repeated. METHODS: The Canadian Nosocomial...

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Autores principales: Taylor, Geoffrey, Gravel, Denise, Matlow, Anne, Embree, Joanne, LeSaux, Nicole, Johnston, Lynn, Suh, Kathryn N., John, Michael, Embil, John, Henderson, Elizabeth, Roth, Virginia, Wong, Alice
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4875760/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27213039
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-016-0118-3