Antibiotics differ in their tendency to cause infusion phlebitis: A prospective observational study

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 512-519

  Lanbeck, Peter ^a   Odenholt, Inga ^a   Paulsen, Otto ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFUROXIME; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOXACILLIN; DICLOXACILLIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NETILMICIN; PENICILLIN G; VANCOMYCIN; WARFARIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG INFUSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INCIDENCE; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PERIPHERAL VEIN; PHLEBITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEPTICEMIA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; CATHETERIZATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBIOTICS; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PHLEBITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SWEDEN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0035990762     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540110080908     Document Type: Article

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