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Potentially Preventable Hospitalizations and the Burden of Healthcare-Associated Infections

BACKGROUND: An estimated 4% of hospital admissions acquired healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and accounted for $9.8 (USD) billion in direct cost during 2011. In 2010, nearly 140 000 of the 3.5 million potentially preventable hospitalizations (PPHs) may have acquired an HAI. There is a knowled...

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Autores principales: Lorden, Andrea L., Jiang, Luohua, Radcliff, Tiffany A., Kelly, Kathleen A., Ohsfeldt, Robert L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5582652/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28894766
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333392817721109