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Establishing the prevalence of healthcare-associated infections in Australian hospitals: protocol for the Comprehensive Healthcare Associated Infection National Surveillance (CHAINS) study

INTRODUCTION: A healthcare-associated infection (HAI) data point prevalence study (PPS) conducted in 1984 in Australian hospitals estimated the prevalence of HAI to be 6.3%. Since this time, there have been no further national estimates undertaken. In the absence of a coordinated national surveillan...

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Autores principales: Russo, Philip L, Stewardson, Andrew, Cheng, Allen C, Bucknall, Tracey, Marimuthu, Kalisvar, Mitchell, Brett G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6231587/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30413520
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-024924