Survival in patients with nosocomial pneumonia: Impact of the severity of illness and the etiologic agent

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 1862-1867

  Rello, Jordi ^a   Rué, Montse ^b   Jubert, Paola ^a   Muses, Graciela ^a   Soñora, Rosario ^a   Vallés, Jordi ^a   Niederman, Michael S ^c  

^a Intensive Care Unit   (Spain)

^b RTI Health Solutions   (Spain)

^c WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Mortality; MPM II; Nosocomial infection; Outcome; Pneumonia; Pseudomonas aeruginosa; Respiratory infections; Severity of illness; Survival; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030862468     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199711000-00026     Document Type: Article

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