Building a continuous multicenter infection surveillance system in the intensive care unit: Findings from the initial data set of 9,493 patients from 71 Italian intensive care units

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1105-1113

  Malacarne, Paolo ^a   Langer, Martin ^b   Nascimben, Ennio ^c   Moro, Maria Luisa ^d   Giudici, Daniela ^e   Lampati, Laura ^f   Bertolini, Guido ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c OSPEDALE CA FONCELLO   (Italy)

^d Area Rischio Infettivo   (Italy)

^e SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^f SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g Laboratorio di Epidemiologia Clinica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Critically ill; Infection; Infection control; Intensive care units; Septic shock; Severe sepsis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; INFECTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ITALY; MORTALITY; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 41649088169     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e318169ed30     Document Type: Article

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