Point prevalence of healthcare-associated infections and antibiotic use in three large Swiss acute-care hospitals.

CONCLUSIONS: HAI prevalence and antimicrobial use in this survey were similar to findings of the past ECDC PPS. The ECDC methodology proved applicable to Swiss acute-care hospitals. PMID: 29698542 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29698542?dopt=Abstract

Source: Swiss Medical Weekly - April 26, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Metsini A, Vazquez M, Sommerstein R, Marschall J, Voide C, Troillet N, Gardiol C, Pittet D, Zingg W, The Swissnoso Network Tags: Swiss Med Wkly Source Type: research