Nursing Interference in Decreasing Hospital Acquired Respiratory System Infection among Patients in ICU / 中华医院感染学杂志

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE To study the occurrence of patients′ respiratory system infection in ICU and its incidence influenced by nursing interference. METHODS The incidence of respiratory system infection of patients who were in ICU longer than 48 hours. were analyzed the normal nursing group with 461 cases from Jan to Dec 2006 were compared with the normal nursing with interference group with 490 cases from Jan to Dec 2007. So the results of two groups were compared by statistical analysis. RESULTS Twelve from 461 cases (the incidence of 2.6%) in normal nursing group had respiration system infection,vs 6 from 490 cases incidence of 1.2% in normal nursing with interference group. With nursing interference the incidence of patients′ respiration infection decreased obviously. There was significant difference between two groups (P