The risk factors for infections acquired by cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral infarct patients in a neurology intensive care unit in Turkey

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 2-3, 2007, Pages 87-91

  Yilmaz, Gul Ruhsar ^a,b   Cevik, Mustafa Aydin ^a   Erdinc, F Sebnem ^a   Ucler, Serap ^a   Tulek, Necla ^a  

^a ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZTREONAM; CEPHALOSPORIN; HISTAMINE H2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; MACROLIDE; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; STEROID; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CEREBRAL SINUS THROMBOSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGY; PNEUMONIA; RISK FACTORS; TURKEY; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

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