The effect of workload on infection risk in critically ill patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 76-81

  Hugonnet, Stéphane ^a   Chevrolet, Jean Claude ^a   Pittet, Didier ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Critical care; Healthcare associated infection; Staffing; Surveillance; Workload

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NURSE PATIENT RATIO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINE CATHETER; WORKLOAD;

AGED; CATHETERIZATION; COMORBIDITY; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; INTUBATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; RISK REDUCTION BEHAVIOR; SWITZERLAND; WORKLOAD;

EID: 33845918207     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000251125.08629.3F     Document Type: Article

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