Contemporary epidemiology and prognosis of health care-associated infective endocarditis

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1287-1297

  Fernández Hidalgo, Nuria ^a   Almirante, Benito ^a   Tornos, Pilar ^a   Pigrau, Carles ^a   Sambola, Antonia ^a   Igual, Albert ^a   Pahissa, Albert ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STROKE;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 54349113393     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/592576     Document Type: Article

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