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 …

Background Unsafe medical care may cause substantial morbidity and mortality globally,
despite imprecise estimates of the magnitude of the problem. To better understand the …

BACKGROUND: Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a leading cause of death in
hospitalized patients, but there has been no systematic analysis of the incidence …

Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are considered a significant
cause of mortality in hospitalized patients; however, the incidence of CLABSIs in limited …

BACKGROUND: We sought to measure the incidence rate of catheter-associated urinary
tract infections (CAUTIs), identify risk factors associated with acquiring the infections; and …

This study was planned to determine the risk factors of candidemia, and the most common
Candida species causing bloodstream infections. A case-control study which included adult …

Background Device-associated health care-associated infections (DA-HAI) pose a threat to
patient safety, particularly in the intensive care unit. The aim of this study was to assess the …

Materials and Methods: A retrospective study was conducted on the prospectively collected
data of 153 consecutive patients admitted in a tertiary care ICU between July 2014 and …

In the present study, we aimed to assess the rate and effect of device-associated nosocomial
infections (DANIs), as well as the rate of antibiotic resistance, in the medical-surgical …

Objective. Intravascular catheters are indispensable tools in modern medical therapy. In
spite of their great benefits, however, the widespread use of catheters leads to several …