Device-associated infection rates in intensive care units of Brazilian hospitals: datos de la Comunidad Científica Internacional de Control de Infecciones Nosocomiales Tasa de infecciones asociadas a aparatos en unidades de cuidados intensivos de hospitales brasileños

• Main Authors: Reinaldo Salomao, Victor D. Rosenthal, Gorki Grimberg, Simone Nouer, Blecher, Silvia Buchner-Ferreira, Rosa Vianna, Maria Ângela Maretti-da-Silva
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Spanish; Portuguese
• Published: Pan American Health Organization 2008
• Subjects: Infecciones bacterianas; infección hospitalaria; farmacorresistencia bacteriana; hospitales; control de infecciones; profesionales para control de infecciones; unidades de terapia intensiva; tiempo de internación; mortalidad; Brasil; Bacterial infection; cross infection; drug resistance; bacterial; hospitals; infection control; infection control practitioners; intensive care units; length of stay; mortality; Brazil; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Dais
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/07d55a39573e4a1685aa1b89bad6bc62

OBJECTIVES: To measure device-associated infection (DAI) rates, microbiological profiles, bacterial resistance, extra length of stay, and attributable mortality in intensive care units (ICUs) in three Brazilian hospitals that are members of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (...