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Abstract
Any infection which a patient contracts in a health-care institution.
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17 entry terms
- Health Care Associated Infection
- Health Care Associated Infections
- Healthcare Associated Infections
- Infection, Cross
- Cross Infections
- Healthcare Associated Infection
- Infection, Healthcare Associated
- Infections, Cross
- Infections, Healthcare Associated
- Hospital Infections
- Infections, Hospital
- Infections, Nosocomial
- Nosocomial Infections
- Hospital Infection
- Infection, Hospital
- Infection, Nosocomial
- Nosocomial Infection
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36 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, transmission, urine, veterinary, virology.
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note INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PATIENT-TO-PROFESSIONAL and INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, PROFESSIONAL-TO-PATIENT are also available
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History Note
HOSPITAL INFECTIONS was see under CROSS INFECTION 1971-78, was see CROSS INFECTIONS 1963-70
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- National Library of Medicine. Cross Infection. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D003428. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D003428
- Cross Infection. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital-acquired_infection
- Cross Infection. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q215509