A 7-year study of severe hospital-acquired pneumonia requiring ICU admission

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1981-1988

  Vallés, Jordi ^a   Mesalles, Eduard ^b   Mariscal, Dolors ^a   Del Mar Fernández, Ma ^a   Peña, Rocío ^a   Jiménez, José Luis ^b   Rello, Jordi ^c  

^a PARC TAULÍ HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI JOAN XXIII   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hospital acquired infection; Intensive care unit; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEGIONELLA PNEUMOPHILA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MORTALITY; OBSERVATION; PATHOGENESIS; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEPSIS; SURGICAL WARD;

AGED; APACHE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PNEUMONIA; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SPAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0344825780     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-003-2008-4     Document Type: Article

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