Eliminating catheter-related bloodstream infections: Fairy tale or new reality?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2150-2152

  Nasraway Jr , Stanley A ^a,b  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheter related bloodstream infection; Continuous quality improvement; Outcomes; Process of care; Protocols

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE; POVIDONE IODINE;

ALGORITHM; ANTISEPSIS; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD VESSEL CATHETERIZATION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COST CONTROL; DRUG COST; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; INCIDENCE; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION CONTROL; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STAFF; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WEANING;

CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; HUMANS; PATIENT CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SEPSIS;

EID: 5644277472     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000142907.52351.1E     Document Type: Editorial

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