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HOSPITAL INFECTIONS AND THEIR CONTROL: PITFALLS IN THE INTERPRETATION OF STATISTICAL DATA *
Author(s) -
FERTMAN MANUEL H.,
FERTMAN MILDRED B.
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1961.tb05269.x
Subject(s) - medicine , interpretation (philosophy) , subject (documents) , intensive care medicine , institution , control (management) , gerontology , law , library science , political science , programming language , management , economics , computer science
The problem of intra‐hospital infection has been the subject of world‐wide concern, and even controversy, during the past decade. The shift in emphasis to the institution as a nidus of spreading pathogens is, in part, the natural outcome of an abating conflict with the once insurmountable infections originating in the community. These far‐reaching changes, promulgated by a revolution in therapeutic approach, gave hopes that the antibiotics would someday end the struggle with all death‐dealing bacteria. It was soon found that these drugs are not omnipotent.