Outcomes in UK patients with hospital-acquired bacteraemia and the risk of catheter-associated urinary tract infections

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 89, Issue 1052, 2013, Pages 329-334

  Melzer, Mark ^a   Welch, Catherine ^b  

^a ROYAL LONDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHILD; DEATH; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; EXTENDED SPECTRUM BETA LACTAMASE PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

BACTERAEMIA; CATHETER ASSOCIATED UTI; HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROTEUS INFECTIONS; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTIONS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84878018170     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: 14690756     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2012-131393     Document Type: Article

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