Incidence of bloodstream infections: A nationwide surveillance of acute care hospitals in Switzerland 2008-2014

BMJ Open

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2017, Pages

  Buetti, Niccolò ^a   Atkinson, Andrew ^a   Marschall, Jonas ^a   Kronenberg, Andreas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SWITZERLAND; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ADULT; AGE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTEREMIA; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BACTEREMIA; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 85016159599     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-013665     Document Type: Review

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