Surveillance of nosocomial infections in a Mexican community hospital: how are we doing? Vigilancia epidemiológica de infecciones nosocomiales en un hospital comunitario de México: ¿Cómo vamos?

• Main Authors: Lourdes García-García (Author), María-Eugenia J (Author), Laura-Elizabeth R (Author), Renata Báez-Saldaña (Author), Leticia Ferreyra-Reyes (Author), Elizabeth Ferreira-Guerrero (Author), Bulmaro Cano-Arellano (Author), Pablo Cruz-Hervert (Author), Norma Araceli Téllez-Vázquez (Author), Leonardo Verduzco-Rodríguez (Author), Yolanda Jaramillo-Cosme (Author), Eleazar Luna-Téllez (Author), Samuel Ponce de León-Rosales (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública, 2010-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE. To compare the nosocomial infection (NI) rate obtained from a retrospective review of clinical charts with that from the routine nosocomial infection surveillance system in a community hospital. MATERIAL AND METHODS. Retrospective review of a randomized sample of clinical charts.Results w...