hospital-acquired infection

nosocomial infection
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Summary

hospital-acquired infection ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,615 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • hospital-acquired infection is a type of healthcare-associated infection[2].
  • hospital-acquired infection is a type of adverse effect[3].
  • hospital-acquired infection is the opposite of community-acquired infection[4].
  • hospital-acquired infection's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Healthcare-associated infections[5].
  • hospital-acquired infection's described by source is recorded as The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2006)[6].
  • hospital-acquired infection's described by source is recorded as Dictionary Of COVID-19 Terms (Arabization Office, 2020)[7].
  • hospital-acquired infection's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C115164[8].
  • hospital-acquired infection's health specialty is recorded as infectious diseases[9].
  • hospital-acquired infection's handled, mitigated, or managed by is recorded as infection control[10].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include healthcare-associated infection[2] and adverse effect[3]. hospital-acquired infection is the opposite of community-acquired infection[4].

Why It Matters

hospital-acquired infection ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,615 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 98 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

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  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23d ago · Zainab abo alneaj · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2006), Dictionary Of COVID-19 Terms (Arabization Office, 2020)
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'eu', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', '
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Described by source: Dictionary Of COVID-19 Terms (Arabization Office, 2020)"
  2. 24d ago · Zainab abo alneaj · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Described by source → The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2006), Dictionary Of COVID-19 Terms (Arabization Office, 2020)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Described by source: The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2006)"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → h0004657-nozokomialni-infekce
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: h0004657-nozokomialni-infekce, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
  4. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Opposite of → community-acquired infection
    Handled, mitigated, or managed by → infection control
    Health specialty → infectious diseases
    Aliases → —
    + 3 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|9 */ Yso id: 19043, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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