Predicting nosocomial bloodstream infections using surrogate markers of injury severity: Clinical and methodological perspectives

Nursing Research

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 273-279

  El Masri, Maher M ^a   Hammad, Tarek A ^b   Fox Wasylyshyn, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Injury severity; Nosocomial bloodstream infection; Surrogate markers; Trauma patients

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; SERUM ALBUMIN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CLASSIFICATION; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; LENGTH OF STAY; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TUBE; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CHEST TUBES; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENTS; INFECTION CONTROL; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MID-ATLANTIC REGION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SERUM ALBUMIN; TRAUMA CENTERS; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 23244440157     PISSN: 00296562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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