Incidence and risk factors of the risk of nosocomial infection in a neonatology unit;Incidencia y factores de riesgo de infeccion nosocomial ed una unidad de neonatologia

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 357-360

  Saleta, Jesús Luis ^a   Rosales, Miguel ^a   Domínguez, Vicente ^a   Jiménez, Teresa ^a   Mariñas, Javier ^a   Bouzas, María Encarnación ^a  

^a Servicio de Medicina Preventiva   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hospitalary infection; Incidence; Neonatology; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UMBILICAL ARTERY CATHETERIZATION;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; COMORBIDITY; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN; UMBILICAL ARTERIES;

EID: 0029832920     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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