Status and cost analysis of antimicrobial treatment of terminally ill patients with hematological malignancy in an acute hospital.

Objective: Terminally ill patients with hematological malignancy tend to be treated aggressively. We aimed to clarify the status and costs of antimicrobial treatment of patients dying with hematological malignancies.

Methods: This retrospective study was conducted in a Japanese acute hospital between September 2010 and August 2015.

Detection of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 7 strain from bathwater samples in a Japanese hospital.

Hospital-acquired legionellosis is one of the serious problems in nosocomial infection. For risk assessment of nosocomial Legionella infection, we surveyed samples from bathrooms for public use in three hospitals and two nursing homes to determine whether Legionella pneumophila was present. A total of 70 hot bathwater samples and samples wiped from bathtubs were collected at 1-h intervals.