Bloodstream infections in patients with or without cancer in a large community hospital

Infection

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 949-958

  Bos, M M E M ^a   Smeets, L S ^a   Dumay, I ^a   De Jonge, E ^b  

^a REINIER DE GRAAF HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Bacteraemia; Bloodstream infection; Cancer; Fungi; Solid tumour

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTEROBACTER CLOACAE; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SOLID TUMOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURVIVAL TIME; TEACHING HOSPITAL; YEAST;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NETHERLANDS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84885187384     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: 14390973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-013-0468-1     Document Type: Article

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