Infectious diseases consultation lowers mortality from staphylococcus aureus bacteremia

Medicine

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 263-267

  Lahey, Timothy ^a,b   Shah, Ruta ^a   Gittzus, Jennifer ^a   Schwartzman, Joseph ^a   Kirkland, Kathryn ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH HITCHCOCK MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BLOOD CULTURE; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CONSULTATION; DEVICE REMOVAL; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MORTALITY; OSTEOMYELITIS; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; PUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL BACTEREMIA; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT DURATION;

BACTEREMIA; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LEBANON; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; PREVALENCE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 70349658731     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0b013e3181b8fccb     Document Type: Article

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