Risk Factors Associated With Intravascular Catheter Infections In Burned Patients: A Prospective, Randomized Study

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 1989, Pages 811-816

  Franceschi, Dido ^a   Gerding, Robert L ^a   Phillips, Georgene ^a   Fratianne, Richard B ^a  

^a METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; BURN; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; BURNS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RISK FACTORS; SKIN;

EID: 0024377902     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-198906000-00019     Document Type: Article

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