Variations in rates of nosocomial infection among Canadian neonatal intensive care units may be practice-related

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Aziz, Khalid ^a   McMillan, Douglas D ^b,j,k   Andrews, Wayne ^a   Pendray, Margaret ^c,o   Qiu, Zhenguo ^d   Karuri, Stella ^d   Lee, Shoo K ^c,d   Baboolal, Ranjit ^e   Boulton, Jill ^f,g   Brabyn, David ^h   Lee, David ^f   Matthew, Derek ⁱ   Newman, Christine ^l   Ohlsson, Arne ^g,m   Peliowski, Abraham ⁿ   Sankaran, Koravangattu ^p   Schmidt, Barbara ^q   Seshia, Mary ^r   Synnes, Anne ^o,s   Thiessen, Paul ⁿ   Walker, Robin ^t   Whyte, Robin ^j   more..

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d Centre for Healthcare Innovation and Improvement   (Canada)

^e NORTH YORK GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f ST JOSEPH S HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^g MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^h ROYAL COLUMBIAN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

ⁱ VICTORIA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^j IWK HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^k FOOTHILLS HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^l HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^m WOMEN S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (Canada)

ⁿ ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^o CHILDREN S AND WOMEN S HEALTH CENTRE OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^p ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^q HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES   (Canada)

^r HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^s MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^t UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTEREMIA; CANADA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIGH BIRTH WEIGHT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; NEWBORN MORBIDITY; NEWBORN MORTALITY; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; VISUAL ACUITY; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSS INFECTION; DELIVERY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

BACTEREMIA; BIRTH WEIGHT; CANADA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS INFECTION; DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 26444499176     PISSN: 14712431     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-5-22     Document Type: Article

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