Cross infection/Related Articles

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Parent topics

• Medical error [r]: Mistakes made in a medical setting with respect to patient care, sanitation or medical administration. A mistake is less than optimal action, thus failure to set up efficient procedures and routines which minimize mistakes is medical error. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Ventilator-associated pneumonia [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Surgical wound infection [r]: Infections that occur at the site of a surgical incision ^[e]

Other related topics

• Staphylococcus aureus [r]: Facultatively anaerobic, Gram-positive pathogenic coccus capable of producing suppurative lesions, furunculosis, pyemia, osteomyelitis, food poisoning, and may be resistant to commonly used antibiotics. ^[e]
• Clostridium difficile [r]: A bacteria species causing infectious diarhhea and pseudomembranous colitis. ^[e]

Articles related by keyphrases (Bot populated)

• MRSA [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Antibiotic resistance [r]: The development of resistance to an antibiotic in an organism originally susceptible to it ^[e]
• Futile care [r]: Medical procedure or treatment that cannot achieve its stated goals or produce its expected benefits, regardless of repetition and duration of treatment. ^[e]