The Impact of Healthcare-Associated Infection on Mortality: Failure in Clinical Recognition Is Related with Inadequate Antibiotic Therapy

PURPOSE: To understand if clinicians can tell apart patients with healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) from those with community-acquired infections (CAI) and to determine the impact of HCAI in the adequacy of initial antibiotic therapy and hospital mortality. METHODS: One-year prospective cohort...

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Autores principales: Cardoso, Teresa, Ribeiro, Orquídea, Aragão, Irene, Costa-Pereira, Altamiro, Sarmento, António
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3592830/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23520508
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058418

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3592830/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23520508
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058418

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