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Burden of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis
Authors
Allegranzi, Benedetta
Bagheri Nejad, Sepideh
Combescure, Christophe
Graafmans, Wilco
Attar Cohen, Homa
Donaldson, Liam
Pittet, Didier
Published in The Lancet. 2011, vol. 377, no. 9761, p. 228-41
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
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PMID: 21146207
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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine interne des spécialités
Research groups Epidémiologie clinique (115)
Staphylocoques dorés résistants à la méthicilline et hygiène hospitalière (330)
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(ISO format) 		ALLEGRANZI, Benedetta et al. Burden of endemic health-care-associated infection in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis. In: The Lancet, 2011, vol. 377, n° 9761, p. 228-41. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:24763

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