Examining the association between chest tube-related factors and the risk of developing healthcare-associated infections in the ICU of a community hospital: A retrospective case-control study

Intensive and Critical Care Nursing

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 38-44

  Oldfield, Margaret M ^a   El Masri, Maher M ^b   Fox Wasylyshyn, Susan M ^b  

^a Hotel Dieu Grace Hospital Windsor   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blood stream infection; Chest tube; Nosocomial infection; Pneumonia; Thoracostomy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CANADA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; TUBE;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHEST TUBES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CRITICAL CARE; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ONTARIO; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 57649238927     PISSN: 09643397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.iccn.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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