A Decade of Reduced Gram-negative Infections and Mortality Associated With Improved Isolation of Burned Patients

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 129, Issue 12, 1994, Pages 1306-1309

  Mcmanus, Albert T ^a   Mason, Arthur D ^a   Mcmanus, William F ^a   Pruitt, Basil A ^a  

^a US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BURN; COHORT ANALYSIS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVIDENCIA STUARTII; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BACTEREMIA; BODY SURFACE AREA; BURN UNITS; BURNS; COHORT STUDIES; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LOGISTIC MODELS; PATIENT ISOLATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0028043852     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1994.01420360096013     Document Type: Article

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