Device-associated infection rates and mortality in intensive care units of Peruvian hospitals: findings of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium Tasas de infección asociadas a aparatos y mortalidad en unidades de cuidados intensivos de hospitales peruanos: datos del Consorcio Internacional para el Control de las Infecciones Nosocomiales

• Main Authors: Luis E. Cuellar, Eduardo Fernandez-Maldonado, Victor D. Rosenthal, Alex Castaneda-Sabogal, Rosa Rosales, Manuel J. Mayorga-Espichan, Luis A. Camacho-Cosavalente, Luis I. Castillo-Bravo
• 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; unidades de terapia intensiva; tiempo de internación; mortalidad; Perú; Bacterial infections; cross infection; drug resistance; bacterial; hospitals; infection control; intensive care units; length of stay; mortality; Peru; Medicine; R; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Dais
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/ac40b4b843d341038ecbdf3e7cca6ee4

OBJECTIVES: To measure device-associated infection (DAI) rates, microbiological profiles, bacterial resistance, and attributable mortality in intensive care units (ICUs) in hospitals in Peru that are members of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC). METHODS: Prospective c...