Infection Prevention in the Neurointensive Care Unit: A Systematic Review.

ABSTRACT: Hospital-acquired infections are common in neurointensive care units. We sought to review interventions which may reduce infection rates in neurocritically ill populations. We conducted a systematic review of studies targeting adult patients in neuro-intensive care units (neuro-ICUs) with an intervention designed to prevent ICU-acquired infections. Our outcome of interest was change in the prevalence or rates of infection between active and control arms of these studies. We excluded studies based on the following criteria: no English full-text version available; pediatric population; non-neurosciences ICU population; pre- or intraoperative methods to prevent infection; lack of discrete data for infection rates/prevalence; studies that were purely observational in nature and did not test an

SUBMITTER: Lord AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6329681 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature