Nosocomial infection in long-term care facilities. A survey in a Brazilian psychiatric hospital Infecção hospitalar em instituições de longa permanência. Pesquisa em hospital psiquiátrico brasileiro

• Published in: Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo
• Main Authors: Regina Capanema de ALMEIDA, Roberto Pietra PEDROSO
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 1999
• Subjects: Nosocomial Infection; Psychiatric Hospitals; Long-Term Care Facilities; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Infectious and parasitic diseases; RC109-216; Arctic; Garganta
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0036-46651999000600006; https://doaj.org/article/045e42d3014d4e45a5604d0e72468157

Nosocomial infection among male patients in a public psychiatric hospital was studied and the definitions for use in long-term care facilities were employed for diagnosis. The overall nosocomial infection rate was 6.7 per 1,000 day inpatients; 55.6% of these infections were identified in the respira...