Influence of the severity of illness measured by the Simplified Acute Physiology Score (SAPS) on occurrence of nosocomial infections in ICU patients

This publication has 18 references indexed in Scilit:

• The prevalence of nosocomial infection in intensive care units in Europe. Results of the European Prevalence of Infection in Intensive Care (EPIC) Study. EPIC International Advisory Committee
  JAMA, 1995
• Nosocomial bloodstream infection in critically ill patients. Excess length of stay, extra costs, and attributable mortality
  Published by American Medical Association (AMA) ,1994
• Nosocomial pneumonia in ventilated patients: A cohort study evaluating attributable mortality and hospital stay
  The American Journal of Medicine, 1993
• Usefulness of severity indices in intensive care medicine as a predictor of nosocomial infection risk
  Intensive Care Medicine, 1991
• Use of the Pediatric Risk of Mortality score to predict nosocomial infection in a pediatric intensive care unit
  Critical Care Medicine, 1991
• CDC definitions for nosocomial infections, 1988
  American Journal of Infection Control, 1988
• Diagnosis of central venous catheter-related sepsis. Critical level of quantitative tip cultures
  Archives of internal medicine (1960), 1987
• A simplified acute physiology score for ICU patients
  Critical Care Medicine, 1984
• APACHE—acute physiology and chronic health evaluation: a physiologically based classification system
  Critical Care Medicine, 1981
• Therapeutic intervention scoring system
  Critical Care Medicine, 1974