Mortality due to hospital-acquired infection after cardiac surgery
Author(s) -
Nicolas Massart,
Alexandre Mansour,
James T. Ross,
Caroline Piau,
JeanPhilippe Verhoye,
Pierre Tattevin,
Nicolas Nesseler
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.458
H-Index - 192
eISSN - 1085-8687
pISSN - 0022-5223
DOI - 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2020.08.094
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , confidence interval , cardiac surgery , hospital acquired infection , pneumonia , hospital acquired pneumonia , incidence (geometry) , retrospective cohort study , mortality rate , surgery , intensive care medicine , physics , optics
Hospital-acquired infections have been associated with significant morbidity and mortality in critically ill surgical patients. However, little is known about mortality due to hospital-acquired infections in cardiac surgery.
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