TY  - JOUR
T1  - Increasing us rates of  endocarditis with staphylococcus aureus: 1999-2008
AU  - Federspiel JJ, Stearns SC, Peppercorn AF, Chu VH, Fowler VG
Y1  - 2012/02/27
N1  - 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.1027
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 363
EP  - 365
VL  - 172
IS  - 4
N2  - 
Estimates of the incidence and impact of bacterial infective endocarditis (IE) have been limited by the infrequency of the disease. Administrative data analyses can provide important information across a broad range of hospitals and regions. We used a recent nationally representative sample1 to estimate the incidence of hospitalizations for bacterial IE in the United States.

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.1027
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinternmed.2011.1027
ER  -