title: Epidemiology of nosocomial infections in medicine intensive care unit at a tertiary care hospital in northern India.
abstract: This prospective observational study describes the rates of nosocomial infections (NI), the sites of infection, the pathogens involved, their antibiogram and the risk factors at a tertiary care hospital in northern India. In 62 of the 182 enrolled patients 95 episodes of NI were recorded (incidence rate 28.6/1000 person days): pneumonia (77%); urinary tract infection (24%) and blood stream infection (24%). All isolates of Acinetobacter, Pseudomonas and Klebsiella and 83.3% of Escherichia coli were resistant to the third generation cephalosporins. An increased duration of the time spent in intensive care units and days of intervention were associated with incident NI.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi 110029, India.
authors.forename: Shabina
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Habibi
authors.forename: Naveet
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Wig
authors.forename: Sunil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Agarwal
authors.forename: Surendra K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Sharma
authors.forename: Rakesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lodha
authors.forename: Ravindra M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Pandey
authors.forename: Arti
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kapil
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors