Quality Improvement of Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia Management and Predictors of Relapse-free Survival

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 195-203

  Townsend, Jennifer ^a   Pelletier, Jamie ^b   Peterson, Gail ^a   Matulevicius, Susan ^a   Sreeramoju, Pranavi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c PARKLAND HEALTH AND HOSPITAL SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteremia drug therapy; Methicillin resistance; Quality control; Staphylococcal infections drug therapy; Staphylococcal infections microbiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE FREE SURVIVAL; RELAPSE; RISK; STAPHYLOCOCCAL BACTEREMIA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; BACTEREMIA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TEXAS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTEREMIA; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TEXAS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84973408911     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: 15557162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2015.09.016     Document Type: Article

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