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Facility-level correlates of antimicrobial use in nursing homes
Mark Loeb1, Allison McGeer, Andrew Simor
1Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|March 5, 2004
Abstract:
We assessed the contribution of facility-level variables to antimicrobial use in a cohort of 50 nursing homes and found that antimicrobial use was significantly correlated with the percentage of nursing home residents with feeding tubes, the number of healthcare aides, and the country of origin of the facility.