Question 64 · LEK · Hospital-acquired infections
Which of the following is not a proven risk factor for hospital-onset pneumonia?
- A. recent history of multiple episodes of treatment with wide spectrum antibiotics.
- B. diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- C. swallowing disorders.
- D. polytrauma (multiple traumatic injuries), which is the cause of the patient’s hospitalization.
- E. viral infection of the upper respiratory tract in the last 4 weeks preceding the patient’s hospitalization.
Hint
Proven risk factors for hospital-acquired pneumonia impair airway protection, weaken lung defence or select resistant flora; test each option against this.
The answer, the explanation and a note on every option are available once you log in. The account is free: topic tests, a mock exam, mistake review and statistics.
More questions on Public health
- When calculating the incidence rate for a given disease the numerator of the fraction denotes:
- A population-based screening of breast cancer was performed using mammography. The sensitivity of the diagnostic tool was 90%, and its specificity…
- The sentence: “10% of cases in meningococcal sepsis with meningitis end in death” describes:
- Let us assume that a new screening test was prepared to detect ovarian cancer. The chart below shows the frequency of its results. Which of the…
- Factors which influence health according to Lalonde’s concept do not include:
- Morbidity rate reaches higher values if: