Healthcare-associated infection in Burkina Faso: an assessment in a district hospital
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Healthcare-associated infection in Burkina Faso: an assessment in a district hospital
In developing countries, few data are available on healthcare-associated infections. In Burkina Faso, there has been a failure to take into account risk management and patient safety in the quality assurance program. The main objective of our study was to carry out an assessment of healthcare-associated infection in a first level hospital. We conducted a cross-sectional study in June 2011 in th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Public Health in Africa
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2038-9930,2038-9922
DOI: 10.4081/jphia.2012.e29