Epidemiology and outcome of nosocomial bloodstream infection in elderly critically ill patients: A comparison between middle-aged, old, and very old patients

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1634-1641

  Blot, Stijn ^a,b,c   Cankurtaran, Mustafa ^d   Petrovic, Mirko ^a,c,e   Vandijck, Dominique ^c   Lizy, Christelle ^f   Decruyenaere, Johan ^a,c   Danneels, Christian ^a   Vandewoude, Koenraad ^b,c   Piette, Anne ^a   Vershraegen, Gerda ^a,c   Van Den Noortgate, Nele ^a,c   Peleman, Renaat ^a,c   Vogelaers, Dirk ^a,c  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Bloodstream; Elderly; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BORDERLINE STATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENESCENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD-BORNE PATHOGENS; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67650474615     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31819da98e     Document Type: Article

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