BACKGROUND Previous studies have investigated the impact of Staphylococcus aureus infections on individual hospitals, but to date, no study using nationally representative data has estimated this burden. METHODS This is a retrospective analysis of the 2000 and 2001 editions of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Nationwide Inpatient Sample database, which represents a stratified ...

introduction: nowadays, medical equipment is essential to provide health care services in hospitals. since 20% of the hospitals costs are devoted to providing such equipment, an appropriate management is required to maintain it. in this study it is intended to investigate the maintenance management of medical equipment in hospitals. methods and materials: it is a cross-sectional study. the popu...

conclusions the results of the present study indicate the presence of the pvl and fnb genes in the strains of s. aureus isolated from clinical specimens collected from the patients admitted to teaching hospitals in qazvin. considering the clinical significance of these organisms, and their potential in threatening public health systems, the identification, treatment, and infection control manag...

Staphylococcus intermedius is a common cause of otitis externa, pyoderma and wound infections in companion animals. Although S. intermedius infections are rare in humans, it is zoonotic, with several case reports describing fatal human infections. Presently, we sought to isolate S. intermedius strains from various sources at animal hospitals nationwide in Korea, examine their antibiotic suscept...

s and Reports ORAL REHYDRATION THERAPY AT HOSPITALS: ITS IMPACT ON DIARRHEAL DISEASE ADMISSIONS AND FATALITIES

Introduction: hospitals performance indicators will help monitoring, evaluation and decision making and therefore must be selected and ranked accurately. The aim of present study is identifying and selecting key hospitals performance indicators. Materials and methods: This is a descriptive and mixed (quantitative-qualitative) study. literature review and expert panel has been done to identif...

C. Hoad, C. Costigan, L. Marciani, P. Kaye, R. Spiller, P. Gowland, G. Aithal, and S. Francis School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, Nottingham Digestive Diseases Centre, NIHR Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom, Department of Cellular Pathology, University Hospital...

WORK EXPERIENCE July 2005–Present Deputy Head of Clinic (Adjunct-kliniekhoofd) University Hospitals Leuven, (Belgium) Senior staff member at the department of intensive care medicine, university hospitals Leuven. Daily responsability in patient care at this tertiary university referral center ICU. Training and education of medical doctors in training for anaesthesiology, internal medicine, surg...

background staphylococcus aureus is associated with different infections ranging from skin and soft tissue infections to endocarditis and fatal pneumonia. s. aureus is still the most common bacterial species isolated from inpatient specimens and the second most common from outpatient specimens. today, methicillin resistant s. aureus (mrsa) isolates are present in the hospitals of most countries...