Assessing the relative burden of hospital-acquired infections in a network of community hospitals

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1229-1230

  Lewis, Sarah S ^a,b   Moehring, Rebekah W ^a,b   Chen, Luke F ^a,b   Sexton, Daniel J ^a,b   Anderson, Deverick J ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; BREAST SURGERY; CATHETER INFECTION; CESAREAN SECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; COLON SURGERY; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HERNIORRHAPHY; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; NOTE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY; VASCULAR SURGERY; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CROSS INFECTION; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; NORTH CAROLINA; PNEUMONIA, VENTILATOR-ASSOCIATED; PREVALENCE; SEPSIS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; URINARY CATHETERIZATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84885460225     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/673443     Document Type: Note

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