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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Những tác giả chính: Lamichanne DR, Shrestha, P
Định dạng: Technical Report
Ngôn ngữ:en_US
Được phát hành: 2016
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Truy cập trực tuyến:http://103.69.126.140:8080/handle/123456789/69
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Tóm tắt: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.