Hickman catheter complications in a haematology unit, 1996-98

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 100-103

  Soo, R A ^a   Gosbell, I B ^b   Gallo, John H ^b   Harvey, M P ^b   Dunlop, L ^b   Motum, P ^b   Rosenfeld, D ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; ACUTE LYMPHOBLASTIC LEUKEMIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BACTEREMIA; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; COHORT STUDIES; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0036378330     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1445-5994.2002.00164.x     Document Type: Article

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