Clinical Correlates of Bacteremia in a Veterans Administration Extended Care Facility

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 1988, Pages 726-732

  Rudman, Daniel ^a,b,c   Hontanosas, Alfred ^a,b,c   Cohen, Zev ^a,b,c   Mattson, Dale E ^a,b,c  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; BACTEREMIA; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URINARY TRACT;

AGED; ANTIBIOTICS; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; INTUBATION, GASTROINTESTINAL; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SEPTICEMIA; SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0023748811     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1988.tb07175.x     Document Type: Article

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