Nosocomial pneumonia on general medical and surgical wards in a tertiary-care hospital

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 749-756

  Greenaway, Christina A ^a   Embil, John ^a   Orr, Pamela H ^a   McLeod, Judith ^b   Dyck, Brenda ^b   Nicolle, Lindsay E ^a  

^a HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY, 500 AND OVER; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL UNITS; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MANITOBA; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0031265827     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141317     Document Type: Article

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