Incidence of infections associated with health care during 2017, Babahoyo, Ecuador.
Abstract
The study is descriptive, retrospective with the objective of determining the morbidity and mortality of nosocomial infections in the intensive care unit of the IESS Babahoyo Hospital, January 2018-February 2018. An educational strategy was elaborated based on a Prevention Workshop of the Nosocomial infection as well as the elaboration and diffusion of a didactic material on the prevention measures; in this regard, to reduce the incidence of nosocomial infection in the ICU of the IESS Babahoyo Hospital.
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