Postoperative Staphylococcus aureus infections in medicare beneficiaries

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Razavi, Moaven ^a   Shepard, Donald S ^a   Suaya, Jose A ^b   Stason, William B ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ESOPHAGUS SURGERY; FATALITY; FEMALE; HIP SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; KNEE SURGERY; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; VERY ELDERLY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; HIP; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURGERY; UNITED STATES;

STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HIP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84911893119     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110133     Document Type: Article

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