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Article 1 The first article selected, Burden of Hospital Acquired Infections and Antimicrobial Use in Vietnamese Adult Intensive Care Units, highlights a situation where patients tend to experience economic burdens associated with hospital-acquired infections. Phu et al (2016) provide readers with a background analysis of the impacts associated with such types of infections especially on matters associated with health care costs. One key aspect that the authors note when undertaking their study is that Vietnam lacks a national surveillance system for hospital-acquired infections. Thus, the number of infections occurring on an annual basis, especially when dealing with public hospitals, ...
