The role of understaffing in central venous catheter-associated bloodstream infections

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 150-158

  Fridkin, Scott K ^a   Pear, Suzanne M ^b   Williamson, Theresa H ^b   Galgiani, John N ^b,c   Jarvis, William R ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ARIZONA VA HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISINFECTANT AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NURSING STAFF; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; UNITED STATES;

AGED; BACTEREMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; DISINFECTANTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; ODDS RATIO; PARENTERAL NUTRITION, TOTAL; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030095189     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30142373     Document Type: Article

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