Improved hospital-level risk adjustment for surveillance of healthcare-associated bloodstream infections: A retrospective cohort study

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 145-

  Tong, E N C ^a   Clements, A C A ^b,c   Haynes, M A ^b   Jones, M A ^a   Morton, A P ^d   Whitby, M ^d  

^a ROYAL BRISBANE AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INFECTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; ONCOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK MANAGEMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; CROSS INFECTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUEENSLAND; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SEPSIS;

EID: 70349774877     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-9-145     Document Type: Article

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