Age and other risk factors of pneumonia among residents of Polish long-term care facilities

International Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wójkowska Mach, Jadwiga ^a   Gryglewska, Barbara ^b   Romaniszyn, Dorota ^a   Natkaniec, Joanna ^a   Pobiega, Monika ^a   Adamski, Paweł ^c   Grodzicki, Tomasz ^b   Kubicz, Dariusz ^d   Heczko, Piotr B ^a  

^a JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Poland)

^b JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

^d Nursing Home   (Poland)

Author keywords

Long term care facilities; Nursing home acquired pneumonia; Pneumonia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DECUBITUS; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DYSPHAGIA; ENTERIC FEEDING; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEEDING APPARATUS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MENTAL TEST; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NEOPLASM; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PNEUMONIA; POLAND; POOR GENERAL CONDITION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE ADENOMA; RESIDENTIAL HOME; RISK FACTOR; TRACHEOSTOMY TUBE; TRACHEOTOMY; URINARY CATHETER; VARICOSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; NURSING HOMES; PNEUMONIA; POLAND; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84872267543     PISSN: 12019712     EISSN: 18783511     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijid.2012.07.020     Document Type: Article

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