Burden of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis

Allegranzi, Benedetta; Bagheri Nejad, Sepideh; Combescure, Christophe; Graafmans, Wilco; Attar Cohen, Homa; Donaldson, Liam; Pittet, Didier

doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61458-4

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Meta-analysis

English

Burden of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis

ContributorsAllegranzi, Benedetta; Bagheri Nejad, Sepideh; Combescure, Christophe

; Graafmans, Wilco; Attar Cohen, Homa; Donaldson, Liam; Pittet, Didier

Published inLancet, vol. 377, no. 9761, p. 228-241

Publication date2011

Abstract

Health-care-associated infection is the most frequent result of unsafe patient care worldwide, but few data are available from the developing world. We aimed to assess the epidemiology of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries.

Keywords

Cost of Illness
Cross Infection/epidemiology
Developing Countries/statistics & numerical data
Endemic Diseases
Humans

Affiliation

Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine

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ALLEGRANZI, Benedetta et al. Burden of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis. In: Lancet, 2011, vol. 377, n° 9761, p. 228–241. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61458-4

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PID : unige:24763
DOI : 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61458-4
PMID : 21146207

ISSN of the journal0140-6736

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Burden of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis

Health-care-associated infection is the most frequent result of unsafe patient care worldwide, but few data are available from the developing world. We aimed to assess the epidemiology of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries.

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