Obesity and site-specific nosocomial infection risk in the intensive care unit

Surgical Infections

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 137-142

  Dossett, Lesly A ^a   Dageforde, Leigh Anne ^a   Swenson, Brian R ^b   Metzger, Rosemarie ^b   Bonatti, Hugo ^b   Sawyer, Robert G ^b   May, Addison K ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BODY MASS; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORGANISM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLEURISY; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SYMPTOM; UNDERWEIGHT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VAGINITIS; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BACTEREMIA; BODY MASS INDEX; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 66249084518     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2008.028     Document Type: Article

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