title: [A study on nosocomial infection among inpatients in Beijing Hospital for elderly].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate the nosocomial infection among inpatients.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective study on 12 418 inpatients was undertaken from January to December in Beijing Hospital in 2000.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Three hundred and seventy-eight cases due to nosocomial infection were identified with a rate of 3.04%. There existed significant differences with rates of different sex and ages. The infection rate in males was higher than in females. The older the age, the higher the rates of infection was noticed. Nosocomial infections occurred mainly in the lower respiratory tract (35.99%), upper respiratory tract (22.46%), urinary tract (17.63%) and gastrointestinal tract (10.39%). The main pathogenic organisms of the nosocomial infection were Candida albicans (15.78%), Pandomonos (13.15%) and Enterococcus (11.84%) with gram negative bacilli (46.03%), gram positive coccus (23.68%) and fungus (15.78%). The overall death rate of nosocomial infection was 14.29%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Nosocomial infections were closely correlated with sex, age, department of wards and invasive operation etc. Prevention and proper treatment of nosocomial infection should be strengthened.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Service, Beijing Hospital, Beijing 100730, China.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies