[Hospital infection: seven years of systematic research at a general hospital in São Paulo].
A seven year analysis with established adequate methods of reporting and confirming hospital acquired infections shows a surprising statistically significant relationship between the frequency of hospital acquired infections and the number of infected patients admitted to this hospital: hospital acquired infections comprised 2% to 3.7% of all admissions, and patients already infected admitted were 5.3% to 8.4%. Surgical wound infections were the most frequent acquired infections. Followed by respiratory infections and urinary tract infections. During the 7 years period there was a very pronounced drop in the number of cases with infectious diseases acquired inside the hospital and a fall in infections acquired after cardiac surgery.
Pasternak
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Hospital da Real Sociedade Portuguesa de Beneficência, São Paulo.
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Mendonça
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Hirata
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Ciosak
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D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006760:Hospitalization; D006769:Hospitals, General; D006801:Humans; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000453:epidemiology; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000453:epidemiology
Infecção hospitalar: sete anos de Pesquisa sistemática num hospital geral em São Paulo.