Nosocomial bloodstream infection in critically ill patients. Excess length of stay, extra costs, and attributable mortality
ContributorsPittet, Didier; Tarara, D.; Wenzel, R. P.
Published inJAMA, vol. 271, no. 20, p. 1598-1601
Publication date1994
Abstract
Keywords
- Case-Control Studies
- Critical Illness
- Cross Infection/ economics/ mortality
- Hospital Bed Capacity, 500 and over
- Hospital Costs/statistics & numerical data
- Hospital Mortality
- Hospitals, University/economics
- Humans
- Intensive Care Units/ economics/statistics & numerical data
- Iowa
- Length of Stay/economics/statistics & numerical data
- Sepsis/ economics/ mortality
- Survival Rate
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PITTET, Didier, TARARA, D., WENZEL, R. P. Nosocomial bloodstream infection in critically ill patients. Excess length of stay, extra costs, and attributable mortality. In: JAMA, 1994, vol. 271, n° 20, p. 1598–1601. doi: 10.1097/00132586-199412000-00063
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- PID : unige:7518
- DOI : 10.1097/00132586-199412000-00063
- PMID : 8182812
Additional URL for this publicationhttp://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/271/20/1598
Journal ISSN0098-7484