Epidemiology of hospital-acquired infections in veterans with spinal cord injury and disorder

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 234-242

  Evans, Charlesnika T ^a,b   Lavela, Sherri L ^a,c   Weaver, Frances M ^a,d   Priebe, Michael ^f   Sandford, Paul ^g   Niemiec, Pamela ^b   Miskevics, Scott ^a   Parada, Jorge P ^a,e  

^a DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS   (United States)

^b HINES VA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^f MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^g MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER; ADULT; AGED; ALCALIGENES; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BONE INFECTION; BURKHOLDERIA; CANDIDA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CITROBACTER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED INFECTION; CORYNEBACTERIUM; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EYE INFECTION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEAD AND NECK INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; KLEBSIELLA; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLUYVERA; LACTOBACILLUS; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORGANELLA; MOUTH INFECTION; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PEPTOCOCCUS; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PROVIDENCIA; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SERRATIA; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; SPINAL CORD INJURY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURGICAL INFECTION; URINARY CATHETER; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA; VETERAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL CORD DISEASES; SPINAL CORD INJURIES; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS;

EID: 39449110753     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/527509     Document Type: Review

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