Bacteremic outcomes in older adults: What is age telling us?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 56, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1750-1752

  Crnich, Christopher J ^a   Zimmerman, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGED; AGING; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTEREMIA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED BACTEREMIA; COMORBIDITY; DENMARK; EDITORIAL; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE STATUS; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; THERAPY DELAY; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 51249120079     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.01943.x     Document Type: Editorial

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