Characteristics of healthcare-associated infections contributing to unexpected in-hospital deaths

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 864-866

  Morgan, Daniel J ^a,b   Lomotan, Lucia L ^a,b   Agnes, Kathleen ^a   McGrail, Linda ^a,b   Roghmann, Mary Claire ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACINETOBACTER INFECTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANDIDIASIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLITIS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTESTINE PERFORATION; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; LIVER ABSCESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; SERRATIA INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STOMACH PERFORATION; SUDDEN DEATH; SURGICAL INFECTION; BACTEREMIA; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG EFFECTS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; MALE; MARYLAND; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

EID: 77955887339     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655018     Document Type: Article

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