Need for more targeted measures - Only less severe hospital-associated infections declined after introduction of an infection control program

• Main Authors: Anne M. Koch (Author), Roy M. Nilsen (Author), Anne Dalheim (Author), Rebecca J. Cox (Author), Stig Harthug (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2015-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Summary: A systematic infection control program is found to be an important tool to reduce hospital-associated infections (HAIs) and surveillance of infection is a significant part of it. The aim of this paper was to present the result from 17 years continuous prevalence studies after implementation...