Prevalence of Nosocomial Infection in TUTH
Background: Nosocomial infection is the infection acquired by patient, patient party or hospital staff from hospital. Generally infection occurring after 48 hours of hospital stay is said to be hospital acquired. Methods: A cross-section observational study was done. In this study, ten different wa...
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| Natura: | Technical Report |
| Lingua: | en_US |
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2016
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| Accesso online: | http://103.69.126.140:8080/handle/123456789/69 |
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| Riassunto: | Background:
Nosocomial infection is the infection acquired by patient, patient party or hospital staff from hospital. Generally infection occurring after 48 hours of hospital stay is said to be hospital acquired.
Methods:
A cross-section observational study was done. In this study, ten different wards of Tribhuwan University Teaching Hospital were observed. Total of 171 patients were observed.
Results :
Out of 171 patients, 4 were found to have Nosocomial infection. The point prevalence of such infections in the hospital was calculated to be 2.35%.
Conclusions:
The commonest form of Nosocomial infection was infection of surgical wound.
Keywords: Nosocomial infection; point prevalence; prevalence; surgical wound. |
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