A randomized trial of 72- versus 24-hour intravenous tubing set changes in newborns receiving lipid therapy

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 487-493

  Matlow, Anne G ^a,b,c   Kitai, Ian ^a   Kirpalani, Haresh ^a,b   Chapman, Nicola H ^a,b   Corey, Mary ^a,b   Perlman, Max ^a,b   Pencharz, Paul ^a,b   Jewell, Sue ^a   Phillips Gordon, Cindy ^a   Summerbell, Richard ^d   Ford Jones, E Lee ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d Laboratory Services Branch   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPID EMULSION;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIUM; BLOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DRUG CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT; FUNGUS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TIME;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIA; BLOOD; CULTURE MEDIA; DRUG CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FAT EMULSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; FUNGI; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, NEONATAL; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033159045     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501657     Document Type: Article

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