Individualized catheter surveillance among neonates: A prospective, 8-year, single-center experience

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 42-49

  Zingg, Walter ^a   Posfay Barbe, Klara M ^b   Pfister, Riccardo E ^b   Touveneau, Sylvie ^a   Pittet, Didier ^a  

^a Infection Control Program   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL LINE ASSOCIATED BLOODSTREAM INFECTION AND CLINICAL SEPSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERALLY INSERTED CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT, NEWBORN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEPSIS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 78650796895     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/657634     Document Type: Article

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