Hospital infection: seven years of systematic research at a general hospital in São Paulo
Pasternak, J.; Ganme, A.P.; Mendonça, F.B.; Hirata, M.L.; Ciosak, S.
Revista do Hospital das Clinicas 45(1): 10-14
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0041-8781 PMID: 2133164 Document Number: 354318
A seven year analysis with established adequate methods of reporting and confirming hospital acquired infections shows a surprising statistically significant relationship between the frequency of hospital acquired infections and the number of infected patients admitted to this hospital: hospital acquired infections comprised 2% to 3.7% of all admissions, and patients already infected admitted were 5.3% to 8.4%. Surgical wound infections were the most frequent acquired infections. Followed by respiratory infections and urinary tract infections. During the 7 years period there was a very pronounced drop in the number of cases with infectious diseases acquired inside the hospital and a fall in infections acquired after cardiac surgery.