Substantial shifts in ranking of California hospitals by hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection following adjustment for hospital characteristics and case mix

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1263-1270

  Tehrani, David M ^a   Phelan, Michael J ^b   Cao, Chenghua ^a   Billimek, John ^a   Datta, Rupak ^a   Nguyen, Hoanglong ^a   Kwark, Homin ^a   Huang, Susan S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b 5226 Donald Bren Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; NURSING CLASSIFICATION; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; COMORBIDITY; CROSS INFECTION; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; HOSPITAL; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGY; PNEUMONIA, STAPHYLOCOCCAL; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; COMORBIDITY; CROSS INFECTION; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONIA, STAPHYLOCOCCAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84907197852     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/678069     Document Type: Article

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