Monitoring of the hospital environment and costs attributable to Health Care-Associated Infections A Systematic Review
Alba Nydia Rubio López,
Sinaí Hinojosa Hernández,
Miguel Raygoza Anaya
et al.
Abstract:Health Care Associated Infections (HAI), according to the WHO, are defined as infections contracted by a patient during treatment in a hospital or other health center and where said patient was not in the incubation period at the time of admission. Currently, they represent a highly relevant problem in Public Health, they entail high hospital mortality and morbidity rates, in addition to presenting great economic and social significance since they affect the years of life potentially lost in the population. Ne… Show more
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