Relationship between age and intensive care unit-acquired bloodstream infections in infectious disease patients in Croatia | Zendy

Mirjana Balen Topić | Zendy; Marija Santini | Zendy; Bruno Baršić | Zendy

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Relationship between age and intensive care unit-acquired bloodstream infections in infectious disease patients in Croatia

Author(s) -

Mirjana Balen Topić,

Marija Santini,

Bruno Baršić

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

the journal of infection in developing countries

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.322

H-Index - 49

eISSN - 2036-6590

pISSN - 1972-2680

DOI - 10.3855/jidc.9950

Subject(s) - medicine , mechanical ventilation , intensive care unit , incidence (geometry) , logistic regression , univariate analysis , bloodstream infection , odds ratio , central venous catheter , multivariate analysis , disease , emergency medicine , pediatrics , intensive care medicine , catheter , surgery , physics , optics

Intensive care unit-acquired bloodstream infections (ICU-BSI) belong to the most important nosocomial infections. Since there is scarce data available on their relationship with older age, we performed this study to estimate the age-related incidence of ICU-BSI and the odds of acquiring ICU-BSI in elderly critically ill infectious disease patients.

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