Hospital-acquired pneumonia in the intensive care units of Polish hospitals

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 784-786

  Wójkowska Mach, Jadwiga ^a   Bulanda, Małgorzata ^a   Rózańska, Anna ^a   Kochan, Piotr ^a   Heczko, Piotr B ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; POLAND; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; POLAND;

EID: 33747724589     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/504447     Document Type: Article

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