Prophylactic Antibiotics May Improve Outcome in Patients with Severe Burns Requiring Mechanical Ventilation: Propensity Score Analysis of a Japanese Nationwide Database

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 60-66

  Tagami, Takashi ^a,b   Matsui, Hiroki ^a   Fushimi, Kiyohide ^c   Yasunaga, Hideo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL TAMA NAGAYAMA HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

antibiotics; burns; pneumonia; prognosis; sepsis

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CARBAPENEM; CEPHALOSPORIN; PIPERACILLIN; SULBACTAM; TAZOBACTAM; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BURN; BURN PATIENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VENTILATED PATIENT; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BURNS; COMPLICATION; FACTUAL DATABASE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; MIDDLE AGED; PROPENSITY SCORE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BURNS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPENSITY SCORE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84954350235     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/civ763     Document Type: Article

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