Health-care-associated infection: morbidity, mortality and costs.
Health-care-associated infection is rightly an area of increasing attention, not least because of considerable resource issues. Not all infection is preventable. However, much is possible and is indeed obligatory to avoid unnecessary infection, and attendant morbidity, mortality and, increasingly, litigation.
Leeds General Infirmary, University of Leeds, Old Medical School, Leeds LS1 3EX.
Mark H
MH
Wilcox
D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000191:economics / Q000401:mortality / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006801:Humans; D016106:Methicillin Resistance; D009017:Morbidity