Original Articles: 2015 Vol: 7 Issue: 10
Investigating the occurrence rate of reported hospital infections and determining their microbic factor in Kerman, South-East Iran
Abstract
Life-threatening nosocomial infections have become a major problem, medical interventions, immune dise ases and antibiotic resistant organisms, increased mortality , morbidity, longer hospital stays and higher healt h care costs were. This study aimed to investigate the incidence of nosocomial infections was hospitalized. In this cross - sectional study of all patients admitted with stand ard definitions, as determined nosocomial infection were enrolled Information required by Form 1 and 2 During the fir st six months, 92 were collected, they were analyze d using a cost of INIS . Results : In this period 10 653 patients, 59 patien ts (19 men, 40 women), most aged 65-15 (81.35%) were nosocomial infections10,653 patient days in th e hospital have spent a total length of 24,130Avera ge rate of 0.66%, the incidence rate was 4.1 cases per 1,000 p eople - was hospitalized for days. Highest incidenc e of surgical site infection in 28 (0.31%), the lowest levels in 2 cases (0.02%), respectively36 patients on clinica l symptoms (61.01%), 23 cases with regard to positive culture (38.98%) were identified. The most common organism Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus negative Kvakvlaz . The results showed that the average total infection s compared with statistics from the World Health Organization (15-5%) is very low Can policy, Developing educatio nal programs and applied research priorities at the nat ional level to be used Problems in a consistent and regular reporting can be seen that recommended adopting the necessary measures to review and eliminate factors that contribute have the lack of reporting hospital infe ctions acting be.