A six-year descriptive study of hospital-associated infection in trauma patients: Demographics, injury features, and infection patterns

Surgical Infections

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 463-473

  Lazarus, Harrison M ^a   Fox, Jolene ^a   Lloyd, James F ^a   Evans, R Scott ^a   Abouzelof, Rouett ^a   Taylor, Carrie ^a   Pombo, David J ^a   Stevens, Mark H ^a   Mehta, Rajesh ^a   Burke, John P ^a  

^a LDS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIPARASITIC AGENT; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DAPSONE; LINEZOLID; MACROLIDE; METHENAMINE; PALIVIZUMAB; PENICILLIN G; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; SULFONAMIDE; TETRACYCLINE; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DRUG USE; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OINTMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SYMPTOM; TWO TAILED TEST; UNITED STATES; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; TRAUMA CENTERS; UTAH; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 34848908012     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2005.43     Document Type: Article

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