The clinical and economic consequences of nosocomial central venous catheter-related infection: Are antimicrobial catheters useful?

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 375-380

  Saint, Sanjay ^a,b   Veenstra, David L ^c   Lipsky, Benjamin A ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BIOMATERIAL;

CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSTRUMENTATION; REVIEW; SEPSIS;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; SEPSIS;

EID: 0034200830     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501776     Document Type: Article

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