Use of central venous catheter and peripheral venous catheter as risk factors for nosocomial bloodstream infection in very-low-birth-weight infants

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 395-401

  Geffers, Christine ^a,b   Gastmeier, Anne ^c   Schwab, Frank ^a,b   Groneberg, Katrin ^a,b   Rüden, Henning ^a,b   Gastmeier, Petra ^a,b  

^a National Reference Centre for Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^c St Vincent Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN INTENSIVE CARE; PATIENT INFORMATION; PEDIATRIC WARD; PERIPHERAL VENOUS CATHETER; PRIMARY INFECTION; VAGINAL DELIVERY; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

BACTEREMIA; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; FUNGEMIA; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; VIREMIA;

EID: 77949556271     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/651303     Document Type: Article

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