Hospital-acquired infection

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title: Hospital-acquired infection
text: A hospital-acquired infection, also known as a nosocomial infection, is an infection that is acquired in a hospital or other healthcare facility. To emphasize both hospital and nonhospital settings, it is sometimes instead called a healthcare-associated infection. Such an infection can be acquired in a hospital, nursing home, rehabilitation facility, outpatient clinic, diagnostic laboratory or other clinical settings. A number of dynamic processes can bring contamination into operating rooms and
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description: Infection that is acquired in a hospital or other health care facility
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital-acquired_infection
date created: 2004-08-03T18:36:05Z
date modified: 2024-09-08T22:32:42Z
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