Racial disparities in infection-related mortality at Alice Springs Hospital, Central Australia, 2000-2005

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 188, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 568-571

  Einsiedel, Lloyd J ^a   Fernandes, Liselle A ^b   Woodman, Richard J ^c  

^a ALICE SPRINGS HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BRONCHIECTASIS; CHRONIC HEPATITIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEPATITIS B; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFECTION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MYCOSIS; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; PYELONEPHRITIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTHERN TERRITORY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 47049128781     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01791.x     Document Type: Article

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