Confounding by indication affects antimicrobial risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus but not vancomycin-resistant enterococci acquisition

BACKGROUND: Observational studies rarely account for confounding by indication, whereby empiric antibiotics initiated for signs and symptoms of infection prior to the diagnosis of infection are then viewed as risk factors for infection. We evaluated whether confounding by indication impacts antimicr...

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Hlavní autoři: Datta, Rupak, Kleinman, Ken, Rifas-Shiman, Sheryl, Placzek, Hilary, Lankiewicz, Julie, Platt, Richard, Huang, Susan S
Médium: Artigo
Jazyk:Inglês
Vydáno: BioMed Central 2014
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On-line přístup:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4057914/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24932407
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2047-2994-3-19
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