Cost of a ventilator-associated pneumonia in a shock trauma intensive care unit

Surgical Infections

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-72

  Cocanour, Christine S ^a   Ostrosky Zeichner, Luis ^a,b   Peninger, Michelle ^b   Garbade, Debbi ^b   Tidemann, Tommy ^b   Domonoske, Bradley D ^b   Li, Tao ^b   Allen, Steven J ^b   Luther, Katharine M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL HERMANN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTING; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VENTILATOR; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; VENTILATORS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 19044371559     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2005.6.65     Document Type: Article

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