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Impact of computerized physician order entry on medication prescription errors in the intensive care unit: a controlled cross-sectional trialKirsten Colpaert
Intensive Care Department, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium
Crit Care 10:R21. 2006..We investigated if the introduction of a computerized ICU system (Centricity Critical Care Clinisoft, GE Healthcare) reduced the incidence and severity of medication prescription errors (MPEs)...
Clinical relevance of Aspergillus isolation from respiratory tract samples in critically ill patientsKoenraad H Vandewoude
Department of Intensive Care, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
Crit Care 10:R31. 2006....
Invasive aspergillosis in critically ill patients: attributable mortality and excesses in length of ICU stay and ventilator dependenceK H Vandewoude
Department of Intensive Care, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185 B 9000 Gent, Belgium
J Hosp Infect 56:269-76. 2004..9%. In a multivariate analysis, adjusting for other co-morbidity factors, invasive aspergillosis was recognized as an independent predictor of mortality...
Effects of nosocomial candidemia on outcomes of critically ill patientsStijn I Blot
Department of Intensive Care, Ghent University Hospital, Gent, Belgium
Am J Med 113:480-5. 2002..To determine whether nosocomial candidemia is associated with increased mortality in intensive care unit (ICU) patients...
Outcome and attributable mortality in critically Ill patients with bacteremia involving methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusStijn I Blot
Ghent University Hospital, Department of Intensive Care, De Pintelaan 185, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Arch Intern Med 162:2229-35. 2002....
Liquid chromatographic determination of the plasma concentrations of cefotaxime and desacetylcefotaxime in plasma of critically ill patientsM T Rosseel
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Heymans Institute of Pharmacology, Ghent University, De Pintelaan 185, B 9000 Ghent, Belgium
J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 811:159-63. 2004..The developed HPLC method was applied for CTX and DES determination in plasma samples of critically ill patients after continuous intravenous infusion of CTX...
Thrombocytopenia and outcome in critically ill patients with bloodstream infectionDominique M Vandijck
Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
Heart Lung 39:21-6. 2010..However, few data are available describing this effect and its relationship with outcomes in specific subgroups of ICU patients...
Outcome in severely ill patients with hematological malignancies who received intravenous chemotherapy in the intensive care unitDominique D Benoit
Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Intensive Care Med 32:93-9. 2006..To assess the outcome in severely ill patients with hematological malignancies who receive intravenous chemotherapy in an intensive care unit (ICU) for a life-threatening malignancy-related complication...
Antimicrobial resistance in nosocomial bloodstream infection associated with pneumonia and the value of systematic surveillance cultures in an adult intensive care unitPieter O Depuydt
Department of Intensive Care, Ghent University Hospital, Gent, Belgium
Crit Care Med 34:653-9. 2006..To study the occurrence of multiple-drug-resistant pathogens in nosocomial bloodstream infection associated with pneumonia. To evaluate prediction of multiple drug resistance by systematic surveillance cultures...
Candida peritonitisStijn I Blot
Intensive Care Department, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
Curr Opin Crit Care 13:195-9. 2007..The review highlights current insights in the epidemiology, diagnosis and therapy of Candida peritonitis, focusing on complicated secondary and tertiary peritonitis...
Clinical and economic outcomes in critically ill patients with nosocomial catheter-related bloodstream infectionsStijn I Blot
Intensive Care Department, Ghent University Hospital, Ghent, Belgium
Clin Infect Dis 41:1591-8. 2005..We evaluate clinical and economic outcomes associated with nosocomial central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection (CR-BSI) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients...
Documented and clinically suspected bacterial infection precipitating intensive care unit admission in patients with hematological malignancies: impact on outcomeDominique D Benoit
Department of Intensive Care, Medical Intensive Care Unit, 12K12IB, De Pintelaan 185, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
Intensive Care Med 31:934-42. 2005..To assess the impact of documented and clinically suspected bacterial infection precipitating ICU admission on in-hospital mortality in patients with hematological malignancies...
Outcome in critically ill medical patients treated with renal replacement therapy for acute renal failure: comparison between patients with and those without haematological malignanciesDominique D Benoit
Department of Internal Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Medical Intensive Care Unit, 12K12IB, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Gent, Belgium
Nephrol Dial Transplant 20:552-8. 2005..The aim of this study was to compare the outcome between critically ill medical patients with and without haematological malignancies who received RRT for acute renal failure...
Evaluation of outcome in critically ill patients with nosocomial enterobacter bacteremia: results of a matched cohort studyStijn I Blot
Intensive Care Department, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium
Chest 123:1208-13. 2003..To evaluate the clinical impact of nosocomial Enterobacter bacteremia in critically ill patients...
Outcome and early prognostic indicators in patients with a hematologic malignancy admitted to the intensive care unit for a life-threatening complicationDominique D Benoit
Department of Intensive Care, Ghent University Hospital, Gent, Belgium
Crit Care Med 31:104-12. 2003..To assess the outcome and to identify early prognostic indicators in a global population of patients with hematologic malignancy admitted to the intensive care unit for a life-threatening complication...
Clinical impact of nosocomial Klebsiella bacteremia in critically ill patientsS I Blot
Department of Intensive Care, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 21:471-3. 2002..905). In conclusion, after adjusting accurately for severity of underlying disease and acute illness, no difference in mortality was found between ICU patients with Klebsiella bacteremia and their matched control subjects...
Outcome in noninvasively and invasively ventilated hematologic patients with acute respiratory failurePieter O Depuydt
Department of Intensive Care, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 9000 Ghent, Belgium
Chest 126:1299-306. 2004....
Nurses' knowledge of evidence-based guidelines for the prevention of surgical site infectionSonia O Labeau
Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Worldviews Evid Based Nurs 7:16-24. 2010..Prevention of surgical site infection (SSI) is an important responsibility for nurses. Knowledge of the related evidence-based recommendations is necessary to provide high-quality nursing care...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for preventing central venous catheter-related infection: results of a knowledge test among 3405 European intensive care nursesSonia O Labeau
Faculty of Healthcare Vesalius, University College Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
Crit Care Med 37:320-3. 2009..To determine European intensive care unit (ICU) nurses' knowledge of guidelines for preventing central venous catheter-related infection from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Outcome and changes over time in survival following severe burns from 1985 to 2004Nele Brusselaers
Intensive Care Department, Ghent University Hospital, De Pintelaan 185, 9000, Ghent, Belgium
Intensive Care Med 31:1648-53. 2005..Taking into account that our patients over the past 20 years have been progressively less extensively burned and hence have a lesser at risk for death, survival following severe burns has continued to improve...
Estimates of attributable mortality of systemic candida infection in the ICUStijn I Blot
J Crit Care 18:130-1; author reply 131. 2003
Medical imaging and timely diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosisKoenraad H Vandewoude
Clin Infect Dis 44:380-1. 2007
Invasive aspergillosis in immunocompetent patientsStijn I Blot
South Med J 99:1398. 2006
Obstacles to implementing evidence-based guidelinesSonia O Labeau
Respir Care 53:505-6; author reply 506. 2008
Invasive devices: no need? No use!Stijn I Blot
Intensive Care Med 33:209-11. 2007
