Automated postdischarge surveillance for postpartum and neonatal nosocomial infections

The American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 91, Issue 3 SUPPL. 2, 1991, Pages

  Holbrook, Kathleen F ^a   Nottebart, Virginia Finn ^a   Hameed, Saundra R ^a   Platt, Richard ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACITRACIN; CEFACLOR; CEFALEXIN; DICLOXACILLIN; ERYTHROMYCIN;

ADULT; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL INFECTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; UNITED STATES;

CROSS INFECTION; DATA COLLECTION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL INFECTION; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0026095188     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-9343(91)90357-4     Document Type: Article

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