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Surveillance Length and Validity of Benchmarks for Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection Incidence Rates in Intensive Care Units

INTRODUCTION: Several national and regional central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) surveillance programs do not require continuous hospital participation. We evaluated the effect of different hospital participation requirements on the validity of annual CLABSI incidence rate benchma...

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Autores principales: Fontela, Patricia S., Quach, Caroline, Buckeridge, David, Pai, Madukhar, Platt, Robert W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3346722/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22586480
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036582