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      Novel pharmacotherapy for the treatment of hospital-acquired and ventilator-associated pneumonia caused by resistant gram-negative bacteria

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      Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy
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              To examine the incidence of infections and to describe them and their outcome in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. International prospective cohort study in which all patients admitted to the 28 participating units in eight countries between May 1997 and May 1998 were followed until hospital discharge. A total of 14,364 patients were admitted to the ICUs, 6011 of whom stayed less than 24 h and 8353 more than 24 h. Overall 3034 infectious episodes were recorded at ICU admission (crude incidence: 21.1%). In ICU patients hospitalised longer than 24 h there were 1581 infectious episodes (crude incidence: 18.9%) including 713 (45%) in patients already infected at ICU admission. These rates varied between ICUs. Respiratory, digestive, urinary tracts, and primary bloodstream infections represented about 80% of all sites. Hospital-acquired and ICU-acquired infections were documented more frequently microbiologically than community-acquired infections (71% and 86%, respectively vs. 55%). About 28% of infections were associated with sepsis, 24% with severe sepsis and 30% with septic shock, and 18% were not classified. Crude hospital mortality rates ranged from 16.9% in non-infected patients to 53.6% in patients with hospital-acquired infections at the time of ICU admission and acquiring infection during the ICU stay. The crude incidence of ICU infections remains high, although the rate varies between ICUs and patient subsets, illustrating the added burden of nosocomial infections in the use of ICU resources.
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                Journal
                Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy
                Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy
                Informa UK Limited
                1465-6566
                1744-7666
                March 05 2018
                March 04 2018
                February 19 2018
                March 04 2018
                : 19
                : 4
                : 397-408
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Center for Anti-Infective Research and Development, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA
                Article
                10.1080/14656566.2018.1438408
                29411661
                3030f7c1-554a-43c0-90d2-7b70743423f7
                © 2018
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