Impact of nosocomial infectious complications after subarachnoid hemorrhage

Neurosurgery

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-87

  Frontera, Jennifer A ^a   Fernandez, Andres ^b   Schmidt, J Michael ^b   Claassen, Jan ^b   Wartenberg, Katja E ^b   Badjatia, Neeraj ^b   Parra, Augusto ^b   Connolly, E Sander ^b   Mayer, Stephan A ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bloodstream infection; Infection; Meningitis; Nosocomial; Outcome; Pneumonia; Sepsis; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Urinary tract infection; Ventriculitis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; XANTHOCHROMIA; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE COURSE; HEALTH SURVEY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CROSS INFECTION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ODDS RATIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 41749114122     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000311064.18368.EA     Document Type: Article

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