Which patients are most at risk of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a review of admissions to a regional maxillofacial ward between 2001 and 2005

British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 439-444

  Rogers, Simon N ^a,b   Proczek, Katarzyna ^a   Sen, Rachel A ^a   Hughes, Julie ^a   Banks, Paul ^a   Lowe, Derek ^a  

^a Aintree General Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b EDGE HILL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complications; Maxillofacial Surgery; MRSA; Oral Cancer; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CANCER STAGING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; MOUTH CARCINOMA; ONCOLOGY; OROPHARYNX CARCINOMA; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SPUTUM; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WOUND;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DENTAL SERVICE, HOSPITAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, DISTRICT; HUMANS; MALE; MAXILLOFACIAL INJURIES; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; NEOPLASM STAGING; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; PATIENT ADMISSION; RISK FACTORS; SPUTUM; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 49049084415     PISSN: 02664356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjoms.2007.12.013     Document Type: Article

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