The association of emergency department crowding and time to antibiotics in febrile neonates

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1380-1385

  Kennebeck, Stephanie Spellman ^a,b   Timm, Nathan L ^a,b   Kurowski, Eileen Murtagh ^a   Byczkowski, Terri L ^a   Reeves, Scott D ^a,b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROWDING; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; DRUG EFFICACY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NEWBORN DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALGORITHMS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; COHORT STUDIES; CROWDING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME MANAGEMENT;

EID: 83655182360     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2011.01221.x     Document Type: Article

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