Between community and hospital: Healthcare-associated gram-negative bacteremia among hospitalized patients

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1050-1056

  Marschall, Jonas ^a   Fraser, Victoria J ^a   Doherty, Joshua ^b   Warren, David K ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BJC HEALTHCARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CATHETER INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED BACTEREMIA; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GRAM NEGATIVE SEPSIS; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED BACTEREMIA; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED BACTEREMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NEUTROPENIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; WOUND; BACTEREMIA; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECT; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; BACTEREMIA; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSOURI;

EID: 71949096445     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/606165     Document Type: Article

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