Trend, risk factors, and costs of clostridium difficile infections in vascular surgery

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 792-800

  Egorova, Natalia N ^a   Siracuse, Jeffrey J ^b,c   McKinsey, James F ^b   Nowygrod, Roman ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INFECTION RATE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICARE; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OBESITY; PARALYSIS; PEPTIC ULCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOLID TUMOR; VASCULAR SURGERY; VERY ELDERLY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PEPTOCLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; PROPENSITY SCORE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR DISEASES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPENSITY SCORE; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR DISEASES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84929285298     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: 16155947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2014.10.031     Document Type: Article

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