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Example sentences for: nosocomial
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Among patients with blood stream infection, the mortality rate of the community-acquired group was lower than that of the nosocomial group.
The mean length of ICU stay was 13 days with 10 ventilated days for patients with nosocomial events, compared with 6 ICU days and 4 ventilator days in the group with no events ( P = 0.0001).
If the suggested nosocomial mechanism of transmission were true, the assumption that infection rates are uniformly distributed would not be valid, because HCV infections will tend to cluster within households that participated in the campaign compared to households that did not.
Because nosocomial bacteremia is likely to develop in patients with a complicated hospital course and lead to multiple organ dysfunction, its association with an increased mortality rate is not surprising.
The following selection criteria were used to identify published studies for inclusion in this analysis: study design-randomized clinical trial; population - hospitalized adult postoperative, trauma, head injured, burn, or medical ICU patients; intervention - gastric versus small intestinal enteral nutrition, initiated at the same time and with the same caloric goal; and outcome variables - at least one of the following primary outcome variables: incidence of nosocomial pneumonia, average caloric goal achieved, average daily caloric intake, time to the initiation of tube feeds, time to reach caloric goal, ICU LOS, and mortality.