Risk factors and prognostic indicators of bacterial meningitis in a cohort of 3580 postneurosurgical patients

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 533-537

  Federico, G ^a   Tumbarello, M ^a   Spanu, T ^a   Roselli, R ^a   Iacoangeli, M ^a   Scerrati, M ^a   Tacconelli, E ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MENINGITIS; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID SHUNTING; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; FATALITY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL PATIENT; TIME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; APACHE; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VENTRICULOSTOMY;

EID: 0034890935     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540110026557     Document Type: Article

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