Incidence of and risk factors for nosocomial bloodstream infections in adults in the United States, 2003

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1036-1044

  AL Rawajfah, Omar M ^a   Stetzer, Frank ^b   Hewitt, Jeanne Beauchamp ^b  

^a Faculty of Nursing   (Nigeria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CASE FATALITY RATE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; INJURY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLE; UNITED STATES; BACTEREMIA; CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; BACTEREMIA; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 71949118451     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/606167     Document Type: Article

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