Tertiary peritonitis (recurrent diffuse or localized disease) is not an independent predictor of mortality in surgical patients with intraabdominal infection

Surgical Infections

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 255-265

  Evans, Heather L ^a   Raymond, Daniel P ^a   Pelletier, Shawn J ^a   Crabtree, Traves D ^a   Pruett, Timothy L ^a   Sawyer, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CANCER; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FUNGUS; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; LIVER DISEASE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS DISEASE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; AGE; AGED; APACHE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONITIS; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ABDOMINAL CAVITY; AGE FACTORS; AGED; APACHE; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERITONITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL;

EID: 0035571070     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/10962960152813296     Document Type: Article

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