Nosocomial infections in the intensive care unit: Incidence, risk factors, outcome and associated pathogens in a public tertiary teaching hospital of Eastern India

Indian Journal of Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 14-20

  Dasgupta, Sugata ^a   Das, Soumi ^a   Chawan, Neeraj S ^b   Hazra, Avijit ^c  

^a R G KAR MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b BREACH CANDY HOSPITAL   (India)

^c INSTITUTE OF POST GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Intensive care unit; morbidity; mortality; nosocomial infection; risk factors

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; APACHE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BURKHOLDERIA CEPACIA; CANDIDA; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EXPOSURE; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ENTERIC FEEDING; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INDIA; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDOMONAS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STENOTROPHOMONAS; STOMACH INTUBATION; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TRACHEOSTOMY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA;

EID: 84925636282     PISSN: 09725229     EISSN: 1998359X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0972-5229.148633     Document Type: Article

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