Investigating hospital heterogeneity with a multi-state frailty model: Application to nosocomial pneumonia disease in intensive care units

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Liquet, Benoit ^a,b   Timsit, Jean François ^c   Rondeau, Virginie ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MALE; MECHANICAL VENTILATOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

CROSS INFECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; RISK ASSESSMENT; VENTILATORS, MECHANICAL;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84862236232     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-12-79     Document Type: Article

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