id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-016208-u12ngkpc Andersen, Bjørg Marit Intensive Patient Treatment 2018-09-25 .txt text/plain 4579 334 50 Intensive care units (ICUs) are treating hospital's poorest patients that need medical assistance during the most extreme period of their life. Intensive patients are treated with extensive invasive procedures, which may cause a risk of hospital infections in 10–30% of the cases. The hospital's management should provide resources and written guidelines regarding infection control work, proper patient/care ratio, sufficient patient areas, isolation capacity and documented competence. Intensive care unit (ICU) should have a large enough area and furnished for a good, safe and effective infection protection [1] . Recent studies indicate that patients in separate ICU rooms will have fewer hospital infections and thus a lower risk of fatal outcome [72, 73] . An outbreak of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa associated with increased risk of patient death in an intensive care unit Single rooms may help to prevent nosocomial blood stream infection and cross-transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in intensive care units ./cache/cord-016208-u12ngkpc.txt ./txt/cord-016208-u12ngkpc.txt