Device use ratio measured weekly can reliably estimate central line-days for central line-associated bloodstream infection rates

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 727-730

  Shelly, Mark A ^a,b   Concannon, Cathy ^c   Dumyati, Ghinwa ^b,c  

^a Highland Hospital Rochester   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Center for Community Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; RELIABILITY; VALIDATION STUDY;

BACTEREMIA; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79958760710     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/660860     Document Type: Article

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