Medical Emergency Team: How do we play when we stay? Characterization of MET actions at the scene.

Background: The creation, implementation and effectiveness of a medical emergency team (MET) in every hospital is encourage and supported by international bodies of quality certification. Issues such as what is the best composition of the team or the interventions performed by the MET at the scene and the immediate outcomes of the patients after MET intervention have not yet been sufficiently explored. The purpose of the study is to characterize MET actions at the scene and the immediate patient outcome.

Additional risk factors for infection by multidrug-resistant pathogens in healthcare-associated infection: a large cohort study.

Background: There is a lack of consensus regarding the definition of risk factors for healthcare-associated infection (HCAI). The purpose of this study was to identify additional risk factors for HCAI, which are not included in the current definition of HCAI, associated with infection by multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens, in all hospitalized infected patients from the community.

Methods: This 1-year prospective cohort study included all patients with infection admitted to a large, tertiary care, university hospital.