Mortality in German intensiv care units: Dying from or with a Nosocomial infection?;Letalität auf Deutschen Intensivstationen: Mit oder wegen nosokomialer infektion?

Anasthesiologie Intensivmedizin Notfallmedizin Schmerztherapie

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 267-272

  Gastmeier, Petra ^a   Sohr, D ^b   Geffers, C ^b   Zuschneid, I ^b   Behnke, M ^b   Ruden H ^b  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mortality; Nosocomial infections; Pneumonia; Primary blood stream infections

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; SEPTICEMIA;

BACTEREMIA; CROSS INFECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GERMANY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 20044375606     PISSN: 09392661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2005-861354     Document Type: Article

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