An assessment of burden of hospital-acquired pneumonia among abdominal surgical patients in tertiary university hospital in Serbia: A matched nested case-control study

BackgroundIn the population of abdominal surgical patients hospital-acquired pneumonia (HAP) significantly increases morbidity and mortality.Patients and methodsThrough regular hospital surveillance of patients who received abdominal operations, we identified postoperative HAP from 2007 to 2019. In...

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Main Authors: Ðorde Taušan, Nemanja Rančić, Zoran Kostić, Nenad Ljubenović, Bojan Rakonjac, Vesna Šuljagić
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Medicine
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2022.1040654/full