Evaluating the accuracy of sampling to estimate central line-days: Simplification of the national healthcare safety network surveillance methods

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 221-228

  Thompson, Nicola D ^a   Edwardstat, Jonathan R ^a   Bamberg, Wendy ^b   Beldavs, Zintars G ^c   Dumyati, Ghinwa ^d   Godine, Deborah ^e   Maloney, Meghan ^f   Kainer, Marion ^g   Ray, Susan ^h   Thompson, Deborah ⁱ   Wilson, Lucy ^j   Magill, Shelley S ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b Air Pollution Control Division   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AUTHORITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA EMERGING INFECTIONS PROGRAM   (United States)

^f CDC   (United States)

^g TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^h Georgia Emerging Infections Program   (United States)

ⁱ NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH   (United States)

^j MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT;

CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERS; CROSS INFECTION; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEPSIS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84873648482     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/669515     Document Type: Article

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