National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System Report, data summary from January 1992 through June 2004, issued October 2004.

American Journal of Infection Control, 2004

1,917 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Surgery

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Citations in the corpus

• Antimicrobial surface functionalization of plastic catheters by silver nanoparticles. (2008, background): “According to recent estimates, the use of 1 in 20 of the 7 million central venous catheters inserted annually is associated with catheter-related bloodstream infection.(2,5) Chronic indwelling urinary catheters also increase the risk of infection, accounting for 80% of all nosocomial urinary tract i”
• The ecology, epidemiology and virulence of Enterococcus. (2009, background): “Over a 15 year period there was a 20-fold increase in VRE associated with nosocomial infections reported to CDC’s National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) (National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance, 2004).”
• From Wearable Sensors to Smart Implants-–Toward Pervasive and Personalized Healthcare (2015, background): “On the other hand, despit increasing sophistication of surgical interventions , surgical site infection occurs in 2-5% of all surgical hospitalis tions, accounts for 17% of all hospital acquired infection s and burdens approximately 20% of high-risk surgical pat ients [58].”