Pediatric risk of mortality and hospital infection

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 783-785

  Arantes, Aglai ^a,d   Da Silva Carvalho, Eduardo ^b   Medeiros, Eduardo A S ^c   Farhat, Calil Kairalla ^b   Mantese, Orlando Cesar ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF UBERLÂNDIA   (Brazil)

^b Disciplina de Infectol Pediatrica

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DEVICE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADOLESCENT; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; LOGISTIC MODELS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 4744359062     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502478     Document Type: Article

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