Costs and risk factors for ventilator-associated pneumonia in a Turkish University Hospital's Intensive Care Unit: A case-control study

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Erbay, Rita Hakan ^a,c   Yalcin, Ata Nevzat ^b   Zencir, Mehmet ^a   Serin, Simay ^a   Atalay, Habip ^a  

^a PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cost; Intensive care unit; Risk factors; Ventilator associated pneumonia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIAL PNEUMONIA; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTERIC FEEDING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK FACTOR; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 2642578308     PISSN: 14712466     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2466-4-3     Document Type: Article

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