Non-communicable diseases, infection and survival in a retrospective cohort of Indigenous and non-Indigenous adults in central Australia

BMJ Open

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Einsiedel, Lloyd ^a   Fernandes, Liselle ^a   Joseph, Sheela ^a   Brown, Alex ^b   Woodman, Richard J ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ALICE SPRINGS HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNICITY; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; MORBIDITY; NON COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; RESIDENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SKIN INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE; STRONGYLOIDIASIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84880644932     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003070     Document Type: Article

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