An elderly man is admitted to a hospital after he experiences a heart attack. Four days after his admission he is diagno...
An elderly man is admitted to a hospital after he experiences a heart attack. Four days after his admission he is diagnosed with pneumonia caused by Pseudomonas. Three other patients in the same hospital at the same time also develop pneumonia caused by Pseudomonas. List at least four key questions an infectious disease epidemiologist would want answered as the source of these infections is investigated.
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ANSWER.
List of questions an epidermiologist need to be answered.
1, is it a nosocomial or hospital acquired infection ?
2, What are the risk factors present in the hospital for this infection ?
3, How it transmitted to all infected patient in the hospital ?
4, How fatal is pseudomonas aeroginosa infection in a patient with other
health condition ?
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