The NOVA score: A proposal to reduce the need for transesophageal echocardiography in patients with enterococcal bacteremia

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 528-535

  Bouza, Emilio ^a,b,c   Kestler, Martha ^a,b,c   Beca, Teresa ^a   Mariscal, Gabriel ^a   Rodríguez Créixems, Marta ^a   Bermejo, Javier ^a,b,c   Fernández Cruz, Ana ^a   Fernández Avilés, Francisco ^a,b,c   Muñoz, Patricia ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

^b SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

bacteremia; endocarditis; Enterococcus spp.

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEART MURMUR; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SPAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HEART MURMURS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84922389999     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciu872     Document Type: Article

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