Risk factors for intensive care unit-acquired nosocomial pneumonia. Is there something new?;Factores de riesgo para la neumonía nosocomial adquirida en las unidades de cuidados intensivos: ¿Hay algo nuevo?

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 128, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 775-776

  Torres, Antoni ^a   Ramírez, Paula ^b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 34347383735     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13106337     Document Type: Editorial

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