Universal risk assessment upon hospital admission for screening of carriage with multidrug-resistant micro-organisms in a Dutch tertiary care centre
Background: In Dutch hospitals a six-point questionnaire is currently mandatory for risk assessment to identify carriers of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) at the time of hospitalization. Presence of one or more risk factors is followed by pre-emptive isolation and microbiological culturing. Aim: To evaluate the yield of the universal risk assessment in identifying MDRO carriers upon hospitalization. Methods: A cross-sectional study was performed using routine healthcare data in a Dutch tertiary hospital between January 1 st, 2015 and August 1 st, 2019. MDRO risk assessment upon hospital... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2021 |
Schlagwörter: | Carriage / Epidemiology / MDRO / Multidrug-resistant organism / Screening / Surveillance / Microbiology (medical) / Infectious Diseases / Journal Article |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29040253 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://dspace.library.uu.nl/handle/1874/441598 |