| nosocomial infection rates during a one-year period in a nursing home care unit of a veterans administration hospital. | infections in long-term care institutions are a constant source of morbidity in residents in these facilities. we report our experience with infection rates during a 1-year surveillance period in a 120-bed nursing home care unit of a veterans administration hospital. our purpose was (1) to establish our own infection rate and (2) to ascertain the relationships (a) between infection rate and level of required nursing care and (b) between infection rate and staffing adequacy. our overall nosocomia ... | 1990 | 2110789 |