Thrombocytopenia and outcome in critically ill patients with bloodstream infection

Heart and Lung: Journal of Acute and Critical Care

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 21-26

  Vandijck, Dominique M ^a,b   Blot, Stijn I ^a   De Waele, Jan J ^a   Hoste, Eric A ^a   Vandewoude, Koenraad H ^a   Decruyenaere, Johan M ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^b GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANAEROBE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANDIDA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; AGED; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET COUNT; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

EID: 77950021807     PISSN: 01479563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2009.07.005     Document Type: Article

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