| candidemia in a tertiary care hospital: epidemiology, risk factors, and predictors of mortality. | demographic information, risk factors, therapy, and outcome for all patients who had candidemia at barnes hospital, st. louis, between 1 september 1988 and 1 september 1989 were retrospectively reviewed. one hundred six candidemic patients were identified, representing 0.5% of all medical and surgical discharges and 0.33% of total patient discharges. these percentages represent a 20-fold increase in the incidence of candidemia at our hospital in comparison with that during 1976-1979. candida alb ... | 1992 | 1520786 |