OBJECTIVE To review cases of nosocomial influenza and compare the epidemiology, clinical characteristics and outcomes with community-acquired cases. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Prospective case series of adults hospitalised with influenza during April - November of 2010 and 2011 using a hospital-based sentinel surveillance system. A nosocomial case was defined as polymerase chain reactio...

BACKGROUND Nosocomial pneumonia is a difficult diagnosis to establish in the intensive care unit setting, due to the non-specific nature of the clinical and radiographic findings. Procalcitonin is a circulating biomarker that may become elevated in the presence of bacterial infection. METHODS We conducted a prospective single-center cohort study at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, a 1,200-bed urban te...

The prevalence of nosocomial infections in critical care units is high. Nosocomial infections are of serious hospital problems. In addition, they are impose heavy costs on hospitals, causing increased hospitalization time, increased morbidity and mortality. In this study, we aimed to determine the epidemiological status of nosocomial infections in hospital ICU Imam Reza, Urmia, Iran. This study...

The term “nosocomial pneumonia” broadly covers all infections occurring 48 hours or more after hospital admission excluding any infection incubating at the time of admission, and has also been called hospital acquired pneumonia. Intensive care unit (ICU) acquired pneumonia (occurring within 48 hours of admission to the ICU) and ventilator associated pneumonia (occurring within 48 hours of start...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Anemia at hospital admission predicts a poor outcome in patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome. It remains unclear whether in-hospital hemoglobin levels decrease (nosocomial anemia) not related to bleeding also implies a poor prognosis. We aimed to identify predictors of nosocomial anemia and its prognostic significance. METHODS We prospectively included ...

BACKGROUND The relation between older age and nosocomial infection and mortality in the intensive care unit (ICU) is still a controversial issue. METHODS The authors prospectively studied 406 patients admitted to a surgical ICU, 106 of whom were more than 75 yr old. Information concerning ICU-acquired nosocomial infections, severity of illness, therapeutic activity, and hospital outcome was c...

BACKGROUND The rate of nosocomial infection appears to depend on whether it is calculated using the Center for Disease Control (CDC) or carrier state criteria. The objective of this study was to differentiate between primary endogenous (PE), secondary endogenous (SE) and exogenous (EX) infections, and to compare this classification with CDC criteria for nosocomial infections. METHODS Children...

BACKGROUND No information is available on the financial impact of nosocomial pneumonia in Argentina. To calculate the cost of nosocomial pneumonia in intensive care units, a 5-year, matched cohort study was undertaken at 3 hospitals in Argentina. SETTING Six adult intensive care units (ICU). METHODS Three hundred seven patients with nosocomial pneumonia (exposed) and 307 patients without no...

Sir, Diarrhea is a major cause of morbidity among recipients of autologous bone marrow transplantation (BMT). The cause is often multifactorial. The use of antineoplastic agents, antibiotics, radiotherapy, alterations in diet and various pathogens have all been implicated. Here we describe a case in a recipient of autologous transplantation who developed life-threatening diarrhea from two diffe...

background: healthcare-associated infections such as nosocomial infections (ni) are important causes of mortality worldwide. objectives in this study we evaluated the nosocomial infections terms of microbiology (resistance, culturing, etc.) in a referral pediatric hospital based on national nosocomial infection surveillance system. patients and methods in an epidemiological surveillance study d...