Excess cost associated with Staphylococcus aureus poststernotomy mediastinitis

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 118, Issue 1210, 2005, Pages

  Upton, Arlo ^a,b   Smith, Pat ^a   Roberts, Sally ^a  

^a AUCKLAND DISTRICT HEALTH BOARD   (New Zealand)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HAND WASHING; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL HYGIENE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; NEW ZEALAND; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL INFECTION; COST; ECONOMICS; HEART SURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; THORACOTOMY;

AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 20444440321     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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