Re-estimating annual deaths due to multidrug-resistant organism infections

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2019, Pages 112-113

  Burnham, Jason P ^a   Olsen, Margaret A ^a   Kollef, Marin H ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

CAUSE OF DEATH; DISEASE BURDEN; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HOMICIDE; HUMAN; ICD-10; INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT ORGANISM INFECTION; OUTPATIENT; SEPSIS; SUICIDE; UNITED STATES; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE;

CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85057168237     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2018.304     Document Type: Letter

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