Use of Semiautomatic Treatment Advice to Improve Compliance with Infectious Diseases Society of America Guidelines for Treatment of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infection: A Before-After Study

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 980-983

  Rijnders, Bart J A ^a,b   Vandecasteele, Stefaan J ^a   Van Wijngaerden, Eric ^a   De Munter, Paul ^a   Peetermans, Willy E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; METICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDA PARAPSILOSIS; CANDIDA TROPICALIS; CANDIDIASIS; CATHETER INFECTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; E-MAIL; ENDOCARDITIS; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT MONITORING; PENICILLIN RESISTANCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; ELECTRONIC MAIL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; PHYSICIANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS;

EID: 0142075839     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378067     Document Type: Article

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