An outbreak of mediastinitis among heart transplant recipients apparently related to a change in the united network for organ sharing guideline

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 377-381

  Samuel, Rafik ^a   Axelrod, Peter ^a   John, Keith St ^a   Fekete, Thomas ^a   Alexander, Sharon ^a   McCarthy, James ^a   Truant, Allan ^a   Todd, Barbara ^a   Furukawa, Satoshi ^a   Eisen, Howard ^a   Spotnitz, William ^a  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DONOR; EPIDEMIC; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIASTINITIS; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDIASTINITIS; OPERATING ROOMS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0036325833     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502069     Document Type: Article

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