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New-Onset Rhinitis Symptoms Among Hospitalized Patients: Are Flowers a Culprit?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Farrin A. Manian
Farrin A. Manian*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, St John's Mercy Medical Center, St Louis, Missouri
*
621 S New Ballas, St Louis, MO 63141
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Abstract

New-onset rhinitis symptoms following admission to the hospital were reported by 12.7% of surveyed patients. Presence of flower arrangements in the proximity of patients' beds was highly associated with the development of new rhinitis (odds ratio, 9.7; 95% confidence interval, 4.3-21.7), or what may be more aptly referred to as “florocomial” rhinitis.

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Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , February 2001 , pp. 111 - 113
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2001

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