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 …

Health-care-associated infections (HAIs) are considered a serious public health issues that
contribute substantially to the global burden of mortality and morbidity with respect to …

Healthcare-associated infections pose one of the most severe threats to patients' health and
remain a major challenge for healthcare providers globally. Among healthcare-associated …

Background The prevalence and mortality of sepsis are largely unknown in Turkey, a
country with high antibiotic resistance. A national, multicenter, point-prevalence study was …

We conducted a prospective study of targeted surveillance of healthcare-associated
infections (HAIs) in 13 intensive care units (ICUs) from 12 Turkish hospitals, all members of …

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 …

Nosocomial infections and risk factors in the intensive care unit of a teaching and research
hospital: A prospecive cohort study - PMC Back to Top Skip to main content NIH NLM Logo …

Infections acquired in the intensive care unit (ICU) are associated with significant morbidity
and mortality. Using surveillance data collected in the United States and internationally, we …

Background. The objective of this study was to assess the compliance of hand hygiene (HH)
of healthcare workers (HCWs) in the neonatal and pediatric intensive care unit in a tertiary …

Objectives: This study was designed to demonstrate the prevalence of the newly discovered
carbapenem-hydrolysing class D enzymes, OXA-51-type and OXA-58, among clinical …