Severe bloodstream infections from the community: Risk factors and outcomes

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1083-1084

  Corona, Alberto ^a   Raimondi, Ferdinando ^a   Singer, Mervyn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Bloodstream infection; Intensive care unit; Outcome; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY CARE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG ABUSE; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; SEPTICEMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

APACHE; BACTEREMIA; CANADA; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 1842687958     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000119933.72259.91     Document Type: Editorial

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