Dicloxacillin: A higher risk than cloxacillin for infusion phlebitis

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 6-7, 2003, Pages 397-400

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

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLOXACILLIN; DICLOXACILLIN; OXACILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DILUTION; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG STRUCTURE; FEMALE; FOREARM; GANGRENE; HAND; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PHLEBITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; VEIN CATHETERIZATION; WRIST;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOXACILLIN; DICLOXACILLIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENICILLINS; PHLEBITIS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0042422078     PISSN: 00365548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00365540310010994     Document Type: Article

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