Device-associated infection rates in adult and pediatric intensive care units of hospitals in Egypt. International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) findings

• Main Authors: Ossama Rasslan (Author), Zeinab Salah Seliem (Author), Islam Abdullorziz Ghazi (Author), Muhamed Abd El Sabour (Author), Amani Ali El Kholy (Author), Fatma Mohamed Sadeq (Author), Mahmoud Kalil (Author), Doaa Abdel-Aziz (Author), Hosnia Yousif Sharaf (Author), Adel Saeed (Author), Hala Agha (Author), Sally Abd El-Wadood Z (Author), Maha El Gafarey (Author), Amira El Tantawy (Author), Lamia Fouad (Author), Mona M. Abel-Haleim (Author), Tamer Muhamed (Author), Hedya Saeed (Author), Victor D. Rosenthal (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2012-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: Purpose: To determine the rate of device-associated healthcare-associated infections (DA-HAIs) at a respiratory intensive care unit (RICU) and in the pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) of member hospitals of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) in Egypt. Mat...