Vandenbroucke-Grauls C M, Kluytmans J A, Voss A
Academisch Ziekenhuis Vrije Universiteit, afd. Klinische Microbiologie en Ziekenhuishygiënè, Amsterdam.
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 1997 Aug 9;141(32):1556-8.
Medical care is increasingly a technical business, and hospitalised patients are more and more susceptible to infections, notably due to the application of aggressive therapies for all kinds of disorders. As a consequence the epidemiology of hospital infections requires serious attention. Following the initiative of some medical microbiologists in the Netherlands, a study group was established to tackle this epidemiology and to initiate relevant research (Working party on Hospital Infections and Epidemiology of the Netherlands; WHEN). Recent subjects include fungemia in hospitalised patients, risk factors for acquiring methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus during a stay abroad, and prevalence of vancomycin-resistant enterococci.
医疗保健日益成为一项技术业务，住院患者越来越容易受到感染，尤其是由于对各种疾病采用了积极的治疗方法。因此，医院感染的流行病学需要得到认真关注。在荷兰一些医学微生物学家的倡议下，成立了一个研究小组来应对这一流行病学问题并开展相关研究（荷兰医院感染与流行病学工作组；WHEN）。近期的研究课题包括住院患者的真菌血症、在国外停留期间获得耐甲氧西林金黄色葡萄球菌的风险因素以及耐万古霉素肠球菌的流行情况。
