A 30-month experience of thoracic empyema in a tertiary hospital: Emphasis on differing bacteriology and outcome between the medical intensive care unit (MICU) and medical ward

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 484-489

  Lin, Yu Chao ^b   Chen, Hung Jen ^b   Liu, Yi Heng ^b   Shih, Chuen Ming ^b   Hsu, Wu Huei ^b   Tu, Chih Yen ^a  

^a CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bacteriology; Complicated parapneumonic effusions; Empyema; medical intensive care unit (MICU); Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; EFFUSION; EMPYEMA; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MICROORGANISM; MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STREPTOCOCCUS; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

AGED; EMPYEMA, PLEURAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN; THORACOSTOMY;

EID: 43149109945     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31816c00fa     Document Type: Article

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