Patients admitted with an infection, on steroids or other immunosuppressant medications were excluded. ICD-10 codes at discharge were used to determine hospital acquired infections (HAI). The presence of HAI was the dependent variable. A multivariable logistic regression was used to determine the ...
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9, 10, 11 Some previous research has shown nurse staffing to be associated with the incidence of hospital acquired infections.12 Less is known about the associations between patient-to-nurse staffing ratios and clinical outcomes for patients with sepsis; however, some recent research suggests that ...
Mortality, Cost, and Length of Stay of Patients With Hospital-Acquired Infections View LargeDownload 1. Institute of Medicine. To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; 2000 2. Burke JP. Infection control: a problem for patient safety. N Engl...
When more representative data can be collected, the robust SRR by state and MSA could be generated and benchmarked to facilitate public health policy discussions, much like reporting of certain hospital acquired infections has informed benchmarking antimicrobial stewardship programs in the United States ...
OBJECTIVE To explore the characteristic of nosocomial infection and formulate the effective measures of nosocomial infection management. METHODS According to the underlying disease condition and method ICD10,the infection data were to classifed and colleced which including of 160 795 cases during 2003-200...
Pandemic stages and preventive measures In Italy, after the detection of the first locally acquired Covid-19 case in Lombardy on February 20, 2020, the number of cases increased greatly in the following weeks, although unevenly among regions, forcing the government to adopt unprecedented ...
molecular epidemiology, the increasing prevalence of community-acquired MRSA in healthcare facilities, system-wide infection control provisions for healthcare systems, hospital infection control issues following natural disasters, and antimicrobial stewardship in reducing the development of antimicrobial-resistant...
For ICD-10 diagnosis codes, those details should include factors such as location, laterality (right, left, unilateral, bilateral), acute, chronic, initial encounter, subsequent encounter, with complication, without complication, with or without infection, and so on. ...
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