Central catheter blood sampling: The impact of changing the needleless caps prior to collection

Journal of Infusion Nursing

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 212-218

  Mathew, Alice ^a   Gaslin, Tracey ^c   Dunning, Kari ^a   Ying, Jun ^b  

^a Drake Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^c INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ADULT; AGED; BACTEREMIA; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLE; NURSING; NURSING DISCIPLINE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REPRODUCIBILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIALTIES, NURSING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349577657     PISSN: 15331458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/NAN.0b013e3181aac20c     Document Type: Article

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