Is surgery a risk factor for creutzfeldt-jakob disease? Outcome variation by control choice and exposure assessments

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 212-218

  Barash, Jed A ^a,d   Johnson, Blair T ^b   Gregorio, David I ^c  

^a HOSPITAL OF SAINT RAPHAEL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; EUROPE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL RISK;

AUSTRALIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; EUROPE; HUMANS; JAPAN; ODDS RATIO; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 39449112204     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/527514     Document Type: Article

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