Nosocomial infections in surgical patients: Comparison of two measures of intrinsic patient risk

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 19-23

  Delgado Rodríguez, Miguel ^a   Sillero Arenas, María ^c   Medina Cuadros, Marcelino ^b   Martínez Gallego, Gabriel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

^b Hosp Univ Ciudad de Jaén   (Spain)

^c Provincial Office of Health   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SPAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY, 500 AND OVER; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPAIN; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0030638309     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141958     Document Type: Article

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