1. Contact precautions in the intensive care unit setting: 12 years of surveillance
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Felipe Maia de Toledo Piza, Rejane Augusta de Oliveira Figueiredo, Alexandre R. Marra, Moacyr Silva, Thiago Zinsly Sampaio Camargo, and Michael B. Edmond
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Cross infection ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Epidemiology ,Tertiary care ,law.invention ,Patient Isolation ,Tertiary Care Centers ,Isolation precautions ,law ,Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial ,medicine ,Humans ,Intensive care medicine ,Patient isolation ,Cross Infection ,business.industry ,Health Policy ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,Tertiary care hospital ,medicine.disease ,Intensive care unit ,Intensive Care Units ,Infectious Diseases ,Contact precautions ,Contact isolation ,Medical emergency ,business - Abstract
The utilization of isolation precautions has increased in tertiary care hospitals due to the increase in colonization with multidrug-resistant organisms over time. We assessed the frequency of multidrug-resistant microorganisms responsible for implementation of contact precautions in the ICU of a tertiary care hospital over a 12-year period.
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- 2013
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