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The impact of hospital-acquired bloodstream infections.
Nosocomial bloodstream infections are a leading cause of death in the United States. If we assume a nosocomial infection rate of 5%, of which 10% are bloodstream infections, and an attributable mortality rate of 15%, bloodstream infections would represent the eighth leading cause of death in the Uni...
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2001
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2631709/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11294700 |