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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...
Autores principales: | Cardoso, Teresa, Ribeiro, Orquídea, Aragão, Irene, Costa-Pereira, Altamiro, Sarmento, António |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2013
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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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