A growing body of evidence that women are less likely to contract bloodstream or surgical site infections than their male counterparts was supported by a new study from Columbia University School of Nursing. Researchers investigated the incidence of infection in thousands of hospitalized patients and found the odds for women succumbing to a bloodstream infection (BSI) and surgical-site infection (SSI) were significantly lower than for men. The odds of community-associated ...Friday 31 May 2013
Women Less at Risk Than Men for Health-care-associated Infections: Columbia Nursing Study
A growing body of evidence that women are less likely to contract bloodstream or surgical site infections than their male counterparts was supported by a new study from Columbia University School of Nursing. Researchers investigated the incidence of infection in thousands of hospitalized patients and found the odds for women succumbing to a bloodstream infection (BSI) and surgical-site infection (SSI) were significantly lower than for men. The odds of community-associated ...
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