Mortality as an Outcome in Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 795-797

  Rello, Jordi ^a   Valles, Jordi ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE SABADELL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; CROSS INFECTION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; REVIEW;

CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL;

EID: 0032176629     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30141430     Document Type: Review

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