Does body mass index affect infection-related outcomes in the intensive care unit?

Surgical Infections

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 581-588

  Smith, Robert L ^a   Chong, Tae W ^a   Hedrick, Traci L ^a   Hughes, Michael G ^a   Evans, Heather L ^a   McElearney, Shannon T ^a   Pruett, Timothy L ^a   Sawyer, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APACHE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BODY MASS; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION RATE; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 37549062156     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2006.079     Document Type: Article

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