Surveillance of infection severity: A registry study of laboratory diagnosed Clostridium difficile

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Schlackow, Iryna ^a   Walker, A Sarah ^a,b   Dingle, Kate ^a   Griffiths, David ^a   Oakley, Sarah ^a   Finney, John ^a   Vaughan, Ali ^a   Gill, Martin J ^d   Crook, Derrick W ^a   Peto, Tim E A ^a   Wyllie, David H ^a,c  

^a JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC CLINICAL TRIALS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; UREA;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR TYPING; MORTALITY; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PREDICTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEUTROPHILS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84864442244     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001279     Document Type: Article

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