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Cross Infection

Research Data from A. Kubler and Colleagues Update Understanding of Cross Infection

Published in Blood Weekly, April 5th, 2012

2012 APR 5 -- "The aim of this study was to determine device-associated health care-associated infections (DA-HAI) rates, microbiologic profile, bacterial resistance, and length of stay in one intensive care unit (ICU) of a hospital member of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) in Poland. A prospective DA-HAI surveillance study was conducted on an adult ICU from January 2007 to May 2010," investigators in Buenos Aires, Argentina report.

"Data were collected by implementing the methodology developed by INICC and applying the definitions of DA-HAI provided by the National Healthcare Safety Network at the US Centers for Disease...

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