作者: Usha Setia , Isabel Servant , Patricia Lorenz
DOI: 10.1016/0196-6553(85)90083-5
关键词: Urinary system 、 Long-term care 、 Skin infection 、 Intensive care medicine 、 Obstructive lung disease 、 Internal medicine 、 Feces 、 Pneumococcal vaccine 、 Sepsis 、 Medicine 、 Urine 、 Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health 、 Health policy 、 Epidemiology 、 Infectious Diseases
摘要: During a 6-month period data were collected on 460 patients residing the long-term care division of this 1200-bed county hospital. The purpose was to determine prevalence and spectrum identify risk factors for skin infections, urinary tract respiratory sepsis. Overall, nosocomial infections among 12%. Patients with had an average 2.8 diagnoses their underlying disease compared without who only 1.8 diagnoses. Specific identified. Skin more common in nonambulatory, diabetic, malnourished, incontinent urine feces, whereas smokers or chronic obstructive lung not received pneumococcal vaccine. Thirteen percent indwelling catheter symptomatic 100% asymptomatic bacteriuria.