Validation of the American thoracic societyInfectious diseases society of America guidelines for hospital-acquired pneumonia in the intensive care unit

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 945-952

  Ferrer, Miquel ^a,c   Liapikou, Adamantia ^a   Valencia, Mauricio ^a   Esperatti, Mariano ^a,c   Theessen, Anna ^a   Martinez, Jose Antonio ^b   Mensa, Jose ^b   Torres, Antoni ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS FUMIGATUS; CANDIDA; CITROBACTER FREUNDII; ENTEROBACTER; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GROUP THERAPY; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RISK FACTOR; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; STENOTROPHOMONAS MALTOPHILIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; BACTERIA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOSPORIC FUNGI; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77749343661     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/651075     Document Type: Article

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