Risk factors and length of stay attributable to nosocomial urinary tract infection in general surgery patients;Factores de riesgo y estancia debida a la infeccion hospitalaria del tracto urinario en pacientes de cirugia general

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 310-314

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

^a Service of General Surgery   (Spain)

^b Delegación Prov de Salud ^*  (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTABRIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

cross infection; general surgery; urethral catheter; urinary tract infection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST; CROSS INFECTION; GENERAL SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SPAIN; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CATHETER;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST CONTROL; CROSS INFECTION; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0030792249     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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