The Impact of Healthcare-Associated Infection on Mortality: Failure in Clinical Recognition Is Related with Inadequate Antibiotic Therapy

• Teresa Cardoso ,

  * E-mail: cardoso.tmc@gmail.com

  Affiliation Intensive Care Unit – Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Polivalente – Hospital Geral de Santo António, Abel Salazar Biomedical Sciences Institute, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Orquídea Ribeiro,

  Affiliation Department of Health Information and Decision Sciences, Center for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems (CINTESIS), Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Irene Aragão,

  Affiliation Intensive Care Unit – Unidade de Cuidados Intensivos Polivalente - Hospital Geral de Santo António, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• Altamiro Costa-Pereira,

  Affiliation Department of Health Information and Decision Sciences, Center for Research in Health Technologies and Information Systems (CINTESIS), Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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• António Sarmento

  Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital de São João, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

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