Healthcare-associated Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection: length of stay, attributable mortality, and additional direct costs

This study aimed to determine the excess length of stay, extra expenditures, and attributable mortality to healthcare-associated S. aureus bloodstream infection (BSI) at a teaching hospital in central Brazil. The study design was a matched (1:1) case-control. Cases were defined as patients > 13 y...

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Auteurs principaux: Mariusa Gomes Borges Primo, Adriana Oliveira Guilarde, Celina M. Turchi Martelli, Lindon Johnson de Abreu Batista, Marília Dalva Turchi
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: Elsevier
Collection:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Staphylococcus aureus
Bloodstream infection
Attributable mortality
Length of stay
Extra costs
Accès en ligne:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702012000600001&lng=en&tlng=en
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