Objectives Urinary tract infections (UTIs) account for over 30% of healthcare-associated infections ... hospitalised on the day of the point prevalence at the study sites, were eligible for inclusion.

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a CMS = Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, HAI = health-care-associated infection ... SSIs = surgical-site infections. b Based on Medicare data for FY 2007 beginning October 1, 2006 ...

Contemporary cardiac intensive care units (CICUs ... cultures and unrelated to infection at another site or a common commensal organism (eg, coagulase-negative Staphylococcus) in ≥2 blood cultures ...

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Regarding the prevalence in the COUs, 16/86 (18.6%) patients had at least one infectious episode, and 68.7% of these infections were acquired in the unit. Table 2 shows the frequency of infectious ...