"Epidemiology, Therapy and Costs of Nosocomial Infection."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Pharmacoeconomics, "In the current climate of cost containment and quality control, nosocomial infection is a worrisome adverse event in hospital care. Hospitalized patients require care for increasingly severe illnesses, and are therefore more susceptible to infection, especially by opportunistic micro-organisms. It is thus necessary to accurately assess and adjust for the severity of the underlying illness in studies of risk factors involved in nosocomial infections. The appearance of new diagnostic and therapeutic techniques provides novel opportunities for infection control and represents a constant challenge to hospital...

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