Healthcare-associated bloodstream infections in critically ill patients: descriptive cross-sectional database study evaluating concordance with clinical site isolates

Annals of Intensive Care

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Culshaw, Nick ^a   Glover, Guy ^a   Whiteley, Craig ^a   Rowland, Katie ^a   Wyncoll, Duncan ^a   Jones, Andrew ^a   Shankar Hari, Manu ^a,b  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Intensive care units; Nosocomial infections

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; PSEUDOMONAS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; UNITED KINGDOM; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 84916624458     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21105820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13613-014-0034-8     Document Type: Article

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