title: [Hospital bacteremia at the "Instituto do Coração do Hospital das Clínicas da FMUSP": a four-year retrospective study].
abstract: We conducted a retrospective study to establish mortality rates and prevalence of nosocomial bacteremias at our institute. We found 1.21 nosocomial bacteremias per 100 hospital discharges with an overall Mortality rate of 29.5%. Primary bacteremias increased during the four-year-study-period from 31 to 41%. Staphylococcus, both coagulase-positive and coagulase-negative, was the bacteria most frequently isolated. An abrupt increase in the isolation of P.aeruginosa occurred in 1992. We concluded that a blood-culture surveillance program is required for determining an endemic rate.
authors.affiliation: Serviço de Epidemiologia e Desenvolvimento de Qualidade, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo.
authors.forename: L F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Camargo
authors.forename: T M
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Strabelli
authors.forename: F G
authors.initials: FG
authors.lastname: Ribeiro
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Mendes
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Uip
authors.forename: G M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Bellotti
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Pileggi
mesh_terms: D016470:Bacteremia / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000401:mortality; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D015337:Multicenter Studies as Topic; D015995:Prevalence; D012189:Retrospective Studies
vernacular_title: Bacteremias hospitalares no Instituto do Coração do Hospital das Clínicas da FMUSP: estudo retrospectivo de quatro anos consecutivos.