Short-term mortality of bacteraemia in elderly patients with haematological malignancies

British Journal of Haematology

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 25-31

  Nørgaard, Mette ^a,b   Larsson, Heidi ^a   Pedersen, Gitte ^b   Schønheyder, Henrik C ^b   Rothman, Kenneth J ^c,d   Sørensen, Henrik T ^a,c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteraemia; Comorbidity; Elderly; Haematological malignancies; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CANCER REGISTRY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEMATOLOGIC MALIGNANCY; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION RATE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUTROPENIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; AGE; BLOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DENMARK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; DENMARK; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HEMATOLOGIC NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPENIA; OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS;

EID: 33644814463     PISSN: 00071048     EISSN: 13652141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2005.05845.x     Document Type: Article

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