Mortality and associated risk factors in consecutive patients admitted to a UK NHS trust with community acquired bacteraemia

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 87, Issue 1033, 2011, Pages 757-762

  Hounsom, Luke ^a   Grayson, Kate ^b   Melzer, Mark ^a,c  

^a QUEEN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b Statistics by Design   (United Kingdom)

^c HAVERING AND REDBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; GENTAMICIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; TEICOPLANIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BILIARY TRACT INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CELLULITIS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; ENCEPHALITIS; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FEMALE; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEPATOBILIARY SEPSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MORTALITY; NEUTROPENIC SEPSIS; NEWBORN; OSTEOMYELITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PITT SCORE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEUS INFECTION; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PYELONEPHRITIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SALMONELLA TYPHI; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; STREPTOCOCCUS VIRIDANS INFECTION; THERAPY DELAY; TYPHOID FEVER; UNITED KINGDOM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES, HOSPITAL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80455155080     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2010.116616     Document Type: Article

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