Healthcare-Associated Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance: Moving Beyond Description to Prevention
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Healthcare-associated infection and antimicrobial resistance: moving beyond description to prevention.
The burden of healthcare-associated infection (HAI) and infections caused by healthcare-associated multidrug-resistant organisms (HA-MDROs) is substantial. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates the annual number of HAIs in US hospitals at about 1.7 million, resulting in approximately 99,000 deaths, which makes HAI the most common infectious cause of death and one of the...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0899-823X,1559-6834
DOI: 10.1086/513722