role of mental disorders in nosocomial infections after hip fracture treatment精神疾病在治疗髋部骨折后院内感染.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases Volume 2010, Article ID 615604, 6 pages doi:10.1155/2010/615604 Research Article Role of Mental Disorders in Nosocomial Infections after Hip Fracture Treatment 1 1 1 ´ 2 Enrique Guerado, Juan Ramon Cano, Encarnacion Cruz, Nicolas Benitez-Parejo, and Emilio Perea-Milla2 1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Hospital Costa del Sol, University of Malaga, Marbella, 29603 Malaga, Spain ´ 2 Department of Research, Statistics, and Epidemiology, CIBERESP, Hospital Costa del Sol, University of Malaga, Marbella, 29603 Malaga, Spain ´ Correspondence should be addressed to Enrique Guerado, eguerado@hcs.es Received 19 August 2009; Revised 12 December 2009; Accepted 5 April 2010 Academic Editor: Kenrad Nelson Copyright © 2010 Enrique Guerado et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The association between mental disorders (MDs) and iatrogenic complications after hip fracture surgery has been poorly studied. Among iatrogenic complications, nosocomial infections (NIs) are a major factor in hip fracture surgery. The aim of this paper was to determine whether patients with a MD and a hip fracture develop more NIs after hip surgery than patients with no MD. We studied 912 pat