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Incidence Density and Relative Risk of Nosocomial Infection in Taiwan's Only Children's Hospital, 1999-2003

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Suh-Hwa Maa ,
Hsin-Lun Lee ,
Yhu-Chering Huang ,
June Hsieh Wu ,
Tsung-Shan Tsou ,
Karen MacDonald  and
Ivo Abraham
Suh-Hwa Maa*
Affiliation:
School of Nursing, Chang Gung University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Hsin-Lun Lee
Affiliation:
Tao-Yuan, and the Northern District of Centers for Disease Control, Taipei, TaiwanRepublic of China
Yhu-Chering Huang
Affiliation:
Division of Pediatric Infection Disease, Linkou Chang Gung Children's Hospital, TaiwanRepublic of China
June Hsieh Wu
Affiliation:
Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Chang Gung University, TaiwanRepublic of China
Tsung-Shan Tsou
Affiliation:
National Central University, Graduate Institute of Statistics, Chung-Li, TaiwanRepublic of China
Karen MacDonald
Affiliation:
Matrix45, Earlysville, Virginia
Ivo Abraham
Affiliation:
School of Nursing, Chang Gung University, Taiwan, Republic of China Matrix45, Earlysville, Virginia Center for Health Outcomes and Pharmaco-economic Research, College of Pharmacy, and the College of Nursing, University of Arizona, Tucson Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research, School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, Wharton School of Business, and the Institute of Aging, School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
*
Suh-Hwa Maa, 259, Wen-Hwa 1st Road, Kwei-Shan Township, Tao-Yuan County, Taiwan (shmaa@mail.cgu.edu.tw)
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Abstract

We report on 2,688 nosocomial infection episodes involving 3,238 pathogens in Taiwan's only children's hospital. The mean annual incidence density was 4.06 cases per 1,000 patient-days. The relative risk was highest in intensive care units, oncology wards, and neonatal observation wards. Very young, low-birth-weight, critically ill, and oncology patients were most at risk.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 8 , August 2008 , pp. 767 - 770
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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