The Effect of Adding Comorbidities to Current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Central-Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection Risk-Adjustment Methodology

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2017, Pages 1019-1024

  Jackson, Sarah S ^a   Leekha, Surbhi ^a   Magder, Laurence S ^a   Pineles, Lisa ^a   Anderson, Deverick J ^b   Trick, William E ^c   Woeltje, Keith F ^d   Kaye, Keith S ^e   Stafford, Kristen ^a   Thom, Kerri ^a   Lowe, Timothy J ^f   Harris, Anthony D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Cook County Health and Hospitals Systems ^*  (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f Premier Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RISK; INTENSIVE CARE; KIDNEY DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MIDDLE AGED; PARALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CROSS INFECTION; ETHNOLOGY; HOSPITAL; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL DEVICE CONTAMINATION; PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (U.S.); COMORBIDITY; CROSS INFECTION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85021754297     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2017.129     Document Type: Article

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