Background Health-care-associated infection is the most frequent result of unsafe patient
care worldwide, but few data are available from the developing world. We aimed to assess …

Urinary tract infection is a common complication of critical illness that is associated with
increased patient morbidity but not mortality. There is a relative paucity of research on …

Background Nosocomial infections or hospital-acquired infections are a growing public
health threat that increases patient morbidity and mortality. Patients at the highest risk are …

Aims: To study the (1) antibiotic prescription and consumption patterns at admission into the
intensive care unit (ICU);(2) average costs of antibiotics prescribed; and (3) correlation of …

Background Ambulatory antibiotic prescribing contributes to the development of antibiotic
resistance and increases societal costs. Here, we estimate the hidden societal cost of …

An important risk factor for nosocomial infection in an intensive care unit (ICU) is prior
colonization. This study was undertaken to determine the spectrum of bacterial colonization …

This study analysed daily antimicrobial costs of Intensive Care Unit (ICU)-acquired,
laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infection (BSI) per patient admitted to the ICU of a …

Background: Surgical site infections (SSIs) are a significant cause of morbidity, emotional
stress and financial cost to the affected patients and health care institutions, and infection …

Purpose Selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD) has been shown to
decrease the infection rate and mortality in intensive care units (ICUs); Lactobacillus …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: This review investigated whether the administration of enteral pre-,
pro-and synbiotics compared with controls in adult intensive care unit (ICU) patients reduced …