Bacteraemia with an unknown focus: Is the focus de facto absent or merely unreported? A one-year hospital-based cohort study

APMIS

Volumn 119, Issue 4-5, 2011, Pages 275-279

  Larsen, Inge Kristine ^a   Pedersen, Gitte ^a   Schønheyder, Henrik C ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bacteraemia; Data quality; Epidemiology; Focus; Register

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEBRILE NEUTROPENIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DENMARK; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPENIA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954900157     PISSN: 09034641     EISSN: 16000463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0463.2011.02727.x     Document Type: Article

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