Predicting bacteremia among patients hospitalized for skin and skin-structure infections: Derivation and validation of a risk score

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 828-837

  Lipsky, Benjamin A ^a,b   Kollef, Marin H ^c   Miller, Loren G ^d,e   Sun, Xiaowu ^f   Johannes, Richard S ^f,g   Tabak, Ying P ^f  

^a VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f CareFusion   (United States)

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREATHING RATE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE INFECTION; FEMALE; GENDER; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; PULSE RATE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SENESCENCE; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN STRUCTURE; TEMPERATURE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; COMPLICATION; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALIZATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

AGED; BACTEREMIA; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL;

EID: 77955879942     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/654007     Document Type: Article

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