Ethnic disparities in outcome from posttransplant infections

Shock

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 197-203

  Pelletier, Shawn J ^a,d   Isaacs, Ross B ^b   Raymond, Daniel P ^c   Crabtree, Traves D ^c   Spencer, Clint E ^b   Gleason, Thomas G ^c   Pruett, Timothy L ^b,c   Sawyer, Robert G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult; Blacks; Comparative study; Ethnic groups; Human; Race; Whites

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; CYCLOSPORIN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIBODY; MYCOPHENOLIC ACID 2 MORPHOLINOETHYL ESTER; OKT 3; TACROLIMUS;

ADULT; AGE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CATHETER INFECTION; CAUCASIAN; CELLULITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; FEVER; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEGRO; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PANCREAS TRANSPLANTATION; PERITONITIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VIRUS INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

APACHE; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 7944223477     PISSN: 10732322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.shk.0000135257.44570.39     Document Type: Article

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