Automated detection of external ventricular and lumbar drain-related meningitis using laboratory and microbiology results and medication data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  van Mourik, Maaike S M ^a   Groenwold, Rolf H H ^a   van der Sprenkel, Jan Willem Berkelbach ^a   van Solinge, Wouter W ^a   Troelstra, Annet ^a   Bonten, Marc J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; FLUCLOXACILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; AUTOMATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID CYTOLOGY; DRAIN; DRAIN RELATED MENINGITIS; DRUG USE; EXTERNAL LUMBAR DRAIN; EXTERNAL VENTRICULAR DRAIN; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MENINGITIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CROSS INFECTION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; INFECTION CONTROL; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; AUTOMATION; CEREBRAL VENTRICLES; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MENINGITIS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79960999928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022846     Document Type: Review

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