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SUBMITTER: Stone PW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2747253 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 20081001 7
In the past 10 years, many researchers have examined relationships between hospital staffing and patients' risk of health care-associated infection (HAI). To gain understanding of this evidence base, a systematic review was conducted, and 42 articles were audited. The most common infection studied was bloodstream infection (n=18; 43%). The majority of researchers examined nurse staffing (n=38; 90%); of these, only 7 (18%) did not find a statistically significant association between nurse staffin ...[more]