The prevalence of health care-associated infection in older people in acute care hospitals

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 763-767

  Cairns, Shona ^a   Reilly, Jacqui ^a   Stewart, Sally ^a   Tolson, Debbie ^b   Godwin, Jon ^b   Knight, Paul ^c  

^a HEALTH PROTECTION SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c GLASGOW ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; BONE AND JOINT INFECTIONS; CARDIOVASCULAR INFECTION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; EAR INFECTION; EMERGENCY CARE; EYE INFECTION; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH INFECTION; NOSE INFECTION; PHARYNGITIS; PNEUMONIA; SENESCENCE; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; UNITED KINGDOM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SCOTLAND; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 79960725135     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/660871     Document Type: Article

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