Open AccessHealth Care–Associated Native Valve Endocarditis: Importance of Non-nosocomial Acquisition
Author(s) -
Natividad Benito,
José M. Miró,
Elisa de Lazzari,
Christopher H. Cabell,
Ana del Rı́o,
Javier Altclas,
Patrick Commerford,
François Delahaye,
Stefan I. Dragulescu,
Helen Giamarellou,
Gilbert Habib,
Adeeba Kamarulzaman,
Arkalgud Sampath Kumar,
Francisco Nacinovich,
Fredy Suter,
Christophe Tribouilloy,
K. Venugopal,
Asunción Moreno,
Vance G. Fowler
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
annals of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.839
H-Index - 390
eISSN - 1539-3704
pISSN - 0003-4819
DOI - 10.7326/0003-4819-150-9-200905050-00004
Subject(s) - medicine , endocarditis , prospective cohort study , incidence (geometry) , intensive care medicine , infective endocarditis , cohort study , cohort , optics , physics
The clinical profile and outcome of nosocomial and non-nosocomial health care-associated native valve endocarditis are not well defined.