Pan-Indian Clinical Registry of Invasive Fungal Infections Among Patients in the Intensive Care Unit: Protocol for a Multicentric Prospective Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Fungal infections are now a great public health threat, especially in those with underlying risk factors such as neutropenia, diabetes, high-dose steroid treatment, cancer chemotherapy, prolonged intensive care unit stay, and so on, which can lead to mycoses with higher mortality rates. The rates of these infections have been steadily increasing over the past 2 decades due to the increasing population of patients who are immunocompromised. However, the data regarding the exact burden of such infection are still not available from India. Therefore, this registry was initiated to collate systematic data on invasive fungal infections (IFIs) across the country.

Objective

The primary aim of this study is to create a multicenter digital clinical registry and monitor tre

SUBMITTER: Ojha AK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10907932 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature