Nosocomial infections in brazilian pediatric patients: using a decision tree to identify high mortality groups

Nosocomial infections (NI) are frequent events with potentially lethal outcomes. We identified predictive factors for mortality related to NI and developed an algorithm for predicting that risk in order to improve hospital epidemiology and healthcare quality programs. We made a prospective cohort NI...

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Main Authors: Julia M.M. Lopes, Eugenio M.A. Goulart, Arminda L. Siqueira, Inara K. Fonseca, Marcus V.S. de Brito, Carlos E.F. Starling
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702009000200008&lng=en&tlng=en