A retrospective epidemiologic study to define risk factors, microbiology, and clinical outcomes of infective endocarditis in a large tertiary-care teaching hospital

Objective: This study aims to define risk factors as well as their association with microbiology and clinical outcomes in a large US infective endocarditis population. Methods: Hospital records were searched for appropriate infective endocarditis–related ICD codes from 16 July 2007 to 13 August 2015...

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Main Authors: Anahita S Mostaghim, Hoi Yee Annie Lo, Nancy Khardori
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2017-11-01
Series:SAGE Open Medicine
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2050312117741772