Mortality and risks related to healthcare-associated infection

• Autor(a) principal: Souza,Ester Sena
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Belei,Renata Aparecida, Carrilho,Claudia Maria Dantas de Maio, Matsuo,Tiemi, Yamada-Ogatta,Sueli Fumie, Andrade,Galdino, Perugini,Marcia Regina Eches, Pieri,Flávia Meneguetti, Dessunti,Elma Mathias, Kerbauy,Gilselena
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Texto & contexto enfermagem (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-07072015000100220
• topic: Cross infection; Epidemiology; Mortality; Risk factors

Healthcare-associated infections are a major cause of morbidity-mortality among hospitalized patients. The aim of this epidemiological study was to determine mortality and risks related to death in adult patients with healthcare-associated infections admitted to a teaching hospital in one year. Patient data were collected from infection medical reports. The mortality rate associated with infections was 38.4%, and it was classified as a contributing factor to deaths in 87.1% of death cases. The correlation between healthcare-associated infection and death was statistically significant among clinical patients (41.3%) presenting comorbidities related to the diagnosis (55.8%), cardiovascular infection (62.2%), pneumonia (48.9%), developing sepsis (69.0%), as well as patients who had been colonized (45.2%) and infected (44.7%) by multidrug resistance microorganisms.