The Likelihood of Hospital Readmission among Patients with Hospital-Onset Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 886-892

  Khong, Carolyn J ^a,c   Baggs, James ^a   Kleinbaum, David ^a,b   Cochran, Ronda ^a   Jernigan, John A ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF ORANGE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ICD-9-CM; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPTICEMIA; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CROSS INFECTION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICARE; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84994009748     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.115     Document Type: Article

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