Investigation of nosocomial infection of medical elderly inpatients in our hospital / 中华疾病控制杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective　To find out nosocomial infection of elde rly patients in our nosocomial and to provide theoretical evidence for preventing nosocomial infection of elderly patients. Methods　601 elderly p ati ents of internal medicine in our hospital were investigated with prospective and retrospective methods from January 1996 to December 1998. Results　Nosocomial infectious rate in this age was 8.32%, and it was higher than mean nosocomial infectious rate in our nosocomial during the last three years( 1.48%). Infectious sites was mostly the lower respiratory tract, and it's infe ctious r ate was 52%. Basic diseases such as endocrine system， circulatory system， dige stive system， genitourinary system， respiratory system diseases were higher in nosocomial infection. Opportunitive pathogens were the main cause of the nosocomial infectious pathogens, and fungi took 85% of the opportunitive pa thogens. Conclusions　Nosocomial infectious factors are mainly that immune function is lower in the aged and antibiotic is used generally.