Clostridium Difficile in Cardiac Surgery: Risk Factors and Impact on Postoperative Outcome

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1396-1402

  Crabtree, Traves ^a   Aitchison, Doug ^a   Meyers, Bryan F ^a   Tymkew, Heidi ^a   Smith, Jennifer R ^b   Guthrie, Tracey J ^a   Munfakh, Nabil ^a   Moon, Marc R ^a   Pasque, Michael K ^a   Lawton, Jennifer ^a   Moazami, Nader ^a   Damiano Jr , Ralph J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BARNES JEWISH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL TOXIN; CEPHALOSPORIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROBABILITY; REFERENCE VALUES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33947322890     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.10.067     Document Type: Article

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