Risk factors for groin wound infection after femoral artery catheterization: A case-control study

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 34-37

  Polgreen, Philip M ^a   Diekema, Daniel J ^a,b   VandeBerg, Jeff ^b   Wiblin, R Todd ^a,b   Yi, Yi Chen ^b   David, Sherry ^b   Rasmus, Dianne ^c   Gerdts, Nicole ^c   Ross, Angelena ^c   Katz, Louis ^c   Herwaldt, Loreen A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^c Genesis Medical Center Davenport   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; ENOXAPARIN; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; DEVICE; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HEMATOMA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INGUINAL REGION; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PROPHYLAXIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; THROMBOSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WOUND INFECTION; CATHETERIZATION; CROSS INFECTION; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL INFECTION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; GROIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33646449983     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/500001     Document Type: Article

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