Prevalence of nosocomial infection in TUTH

Executive Summary: Nosocomial infection is the infection acquired by patient, patient party of hospital staff from hospital. Generally infection occurring after 48 hours of hospital stay is said to be hospital acquired. A cross section observational study was done. In this study, ten different wards...

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Wedi'i Gadw mewn:
Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awduron: Lamichhane, Diman Raj, Shrestha, Promish
Fformat: Technical Report
Iaith:en_US
Cyhoeddwyd: 2013
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Mynediad Ar-lein:http://103.69.126.140:8080/handle/123456789/585
Tagiau: Ychwanegu Tag
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Crynodeb:Executive Summary: Nosocomial infection is the infection acquired by patient, patient party of hospital staff from hospital. Generally infection occurring after 48 hours of hospital stay is said to be hospital acquired. A cross section observational study was done. In this study, ten different wards (Orthopedic, Eye/ENT, Obstetrics, Male Medical Ward, Female Medical Ward, male Surgical Ward, female Surgical Ward, Annex I, Annex II) of TUTH were observed. Total of 171 patients were observed, out of which four were found to have nosocomial infection. hence, point prevalence of such infections in the hospital was calculated to be 2.35%. The commonest form of nosocomial infection was infection of surgical wound.