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Descriptor
English
:
Cross Infection
Descriptor
Spanish
:
Infección Hospitalaria
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Infecção Hospitalar
Synonyms
English
:
Hospital Infections
Nosocomial Infections
Tree Number:
C01.539.248
Definition
English
:
Any
infection
which a patient
contracts
in a health-care institution.
Indexing Annotation
English
:
restricted to any infect from one patient to another or from
health
care worker to patient "in a health-care institution"; also available for dis from patient to
health
care worker is
DISEASE TRANSMISSION
, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL and for
health
care worker to patient is
DISEASE TRANSMISSION
, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT
See Related
English
:
Community-Acquired Infections
Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional
Disease Transmission, Professional-to-Patient
Infection Control
Patient Isolation
Patient Isolators
History Note
English
:
HOSPITAL INFECTIONS was see under CROSS INFECTION 1971-78, was see CROSS INFECTIONS 1963-70
Allowable Qualifiers
English
:
blood
cerebrospinal fluid
chemically induced
classification
congenital
complications
diet therapy
diagnosis
drug therapy
economics
ethnology
embryology
enzymology
epidemiology
etiology
genetics
history
immunology
metabolism
microbiology
mortality
nursing
pathology
prevention & control
physiopathology
parasitology
psychology
radiography
rehabilitation
radionuclide imaging
radiotherapy
surgery
therapy
transmission
urine
ultrasonography
veterinary
virology
Record Number:
28477
Unique Identifier:
D003428
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