Catheter Management Protocol for Catheter-Related Bacteremia Prophylaxis

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 403-405

  Beathard, Gerald A ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CATHETER INFECTION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROPHYLAXIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAFF TRAINING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BACTEREMIA; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0242319628     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-139X.2003.16087.x     Document Type: Article

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