Bloodstream Infections in a Community Hospital: A 25-year Follow-up

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 936-941

  Scheckler, William E ^a,b   Bobula, James A ^a   Beamsley, Mark B ^a   Hadden, Scott T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; METICILLIN; NAFCILLIN; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE MIX; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CLINICAL LABORATORY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG UTILIZATION REVIEW; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; INCIDENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; WISCONSIN;

EID: 0346733135     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502162     Document Type: Article

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