Bloodstream infections as a marker of community-acquired sepsis severity. Results from the Portuguese community-acquired sepsis study (SACiUCI study)

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 242-248

  Goncalves Pereira J ^a,b   Povoa, P R ^a,b   Lobo, C ^c   Carneiro, A H ^d  

^a HOSPITAL DE SÃO FRANCISCO XAVIER   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

^c University of Porto   (Portugal)

^d HOSPITAL DE SANTO ANTÓNIO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Blood cultures; Bloodstream infection; Community acquired sepsis; Intensive care unit; Septic shock

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED SEPSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PORTUGAL; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEPSIS; SIMPLIFIED ACUTE PHYSIOLOGY SCORE; SUMMER; TREATMENT DURATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WINTER;

NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 84874305571     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2012.03776.x     Document Type: Article

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