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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Hospital Acquired Pneumonia"”.
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Improving Oral Care Practices and Aspiration Risk Assessment to Mitigate Risk of Hospital Acquired Pneumnia
… Aspiration Risk Assessment to Mitigate Risk of Hospital Acquired Pneumonia</em> is to decrease rates of hospital acquired pneumonia (HAP) on a 16 bed Transitional Care Unit (TCU) with a mixed skill staff. The theme of the project is risk reduction with improved patient outcomes and cost …
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Creating A Culture of Mobility: A Quality Improvement Project
… Nurse Scholar Academy; Kaiser Permanente Hospital, San Francisco (CNL practicum site).</p> <p><strong> </strong></p> <p><strong>Background Information</strong></p> <p>The medical/surgical unit had the average ambulation score of 54% in the year 2015, much below the benchmark of 65% set for …
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The impact of HIV on 30-day survival amongst patients undergoing cardiac surgery at Groote Schuur Hospital in the ART era
… a retrospective review of the Groote Schuur Hospital and Chris Barnard Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery patient records between 2003 and 2013, to evaluate the perioperative and one month outcomes of HIV positive patients undergoing cardiac surgery at our tertiary care institution. …
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Burden, Etiology and Control of Hospital Acquired Infections in Intensive Care Units in Vietnam
Hospital acquired infection (HAI) is one of the most frequent adverse event in healthcare worldwide, affecting hundreds of millions of patients annually. In both developed and developing countries, this burden falls mainly on the critically ill. In Vietnam, HAI data are limited, particularly from …
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Identification of new therapeutic compounds against carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae using a novel agar-based high-throughput microarray compound screening approach
Klebsiella pneumoniae, a Gram-negative bacterium, is a common cause of hospital-acquired pneumonia, urinary tract infections (UTIs), bacteraemia, septicaemia, and wound/surgical site infections. Over the years, the pathogen developed resistance to most β-lactam antibacterial drugs used in clinical …
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HAP Prevention: One Tracheostomy at a Time
… is all adult inpatient units of an acute care hospital that cares for tracheostomy patients. To provide tangible data, rooms of patients who have a tracheostomy were audited for saved used suction catheters. Two sessions of data collection were implemented. The first session was data collection …