The Danish Collaborative Bacteraemia Network (DACOBAN) database

Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2014, Pages 301-308

  Gradel, Kim Oren ^a,b   Schønheyder, Henrik Carl ^c,d   Arpi, Magnus ^e   Knudsen, Jenny Dahl ^f   Østergaard, Christian ^f   Søgaard, Mette ^g  

^a ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^d AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

^f HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^g AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Database; Population based; Positive blood cultures

Indexed keywords

BACTEREMIA; BIOSURVEILLANCE; COMORBIDITY; DANISH CITIZEN; DANISH COLLABORATIVE BACTERAEMIA NETWORK DATABASE; ENTEROCOCCUS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FACTUAL DATABASE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MICROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POPULATION RISK; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; VITAL STATISTICS;

EID: 84907501126     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11791349     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CLEP.S66998     Document Type: Review

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