Abstract
METHODS: The study included 146 patients diagnosed with nosocomial infections following the hospitalization in a general intensive care unit. Patients were selected retrospectively among the 2135 patients admitted in Adiyaman State Hospital and Adiyaman 82nd Year State Hospital between January 1st and December 31st of 2010. To analyze the causes of the mortality; age, gender, hospital staying time, accompanying disease, interventions like central, venous, nasogastric or urinary catheterization and endotracheal intubation rates were compared in patients died at the end of the period with the ones who survived. The data were analysed by using SPSS 16.0 package program. Mean ± standard deviation and percentage distributions were used as descriptive statistics. Independent samples T-test and chi square test were used for data analyses.
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