The laboratory consists of 7 units as request reception unit, hematology unit, clinical chemistry unit, clinical microscopic unit, special test unit, quality control unit and laboratory result distribution unit.
Thus, our study emphasizes the importance of IA surveillance, not just in hematology units; rather, surveillance should be expanded to cover all high-risk units (ICUs, respiratory care, infectious diseases and internal medicine units, in particularly).
This study describes a fatal epidemic of P. aeruginosa that occurred in a hematology unit in Italy.
Similarly, screening of only some of the MRSA contact patients in the hematology unit in May 1992 was clearly insufficient.
In a hematology unit in the Netherlands, the incidence of ciprofloxacin-resistant Enterobacter cloacae and Escherichia coli increased from from 1996 to 1999.
To characterize the profile of dermatological problems encountered in a hematology unit in a tertiary hospital, and to delineate clinical features that may help to distinguish cutaneous adverse drug reactions from toxic erythema of chemotherapy.
We analyzed resistance rates (by patients-day) in the cohort, as well as in other patients (neutropenic and non-neutropenic, 11,975 patients-day) admitted to the hematology unit in the same period, taking into consideration the general resistance patterns in the hospital.
In the present study we evaluated the impact of quinolone prophylaxis given during neutropenia on different outcomes, with special attention to the rates of resistance among patients on prophylaxis, as well as in patients admitted to the hematology unit in the same period, taking into consideration the general resistance patterns in the hospital.
Only 723434%) of the IA cases were cared for in hematology or in infectious diseases units.
This study investigated the prevalence of de-escalation and the factors associated with in hematology patients admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU).
