Clinical performance and quality health care
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Clin Perform Qual Health Care · Apr 1996
Proportion of mortality caused by severe hospital-acquired infection in open-heart surgery.
To investigate severe hospital-acquired infection as an independent risk factor for in-hospital mortality and the proportion of mortality caused by severe hospital-acquired infections in patients under going open-heart surgery. ⋯ Severe hospital-acquired infection is a principal factor in in-hospital mortality. One third of all deaths are caused by infection. Major efforts should be devoted to the prevention and control of severe nosocomial infections in open-heart surgery patients to prevent mortality.