Intensive care unit-acquired infections: Is postdischarge surveillance useful?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 2636-2638

  Hugonnet, Stéphane ^a   Eggimann, Philippe ^a   Sax, Hugo ^a   Touveneau, Sylvie ^a   Chevrolet, Jean Claude ^a   Pittet, Didier ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Intensive care unit; Nosocomial infections; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; AFTERCARE; CROSS INFECTION; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RISK FACTOR; SWITZERLAND;

AFTERCARE; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0036883990     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200212000-00004     Document Type: Article

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