Surveillance for healthcare-acquired febrile respiratory infection in pediatric hospitals participating in the Canadian nosocomial infection surveillance program

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 652-658

  Vayalumkal, Joseph V ^a,f   Gravel, Denise ^b,f   Moore, Dorothy ^e,f   Matlow, Anne ^c,d,f  

^a Canadian Field Epidemiology Program   (Canada)

^b Infectious Diseases and Emergency Preparedness Branch   (Canada)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH AGENCY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^d HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^e MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^f Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; INFLUENZA VACCINE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS VACCINE;

ADENOVIRUS; ADENOVIRUS INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CANADA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; FEMALE; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTHCARE ACQUIRED FEBRILE RESPIRATORY INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNOPROPHYLAXIS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INFLUENZA VIRUS B; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORAXELLA CATARRHALIS; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PSYCHIATRIC DEPARTMENT; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RNA VIRUS INFECTION; SCHOOL CHILD; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; VIRUS INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; CANADA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS INFECTIONS; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS, HUMAN; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 67651097781     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/598247     Document Type: Article

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