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- Title
Cost-effective infection control success story: a case presentation.
- Authors
Slater, Fran; Slater, F
- Abstract
In a surgical intensive care unit, the 1996-1997 incidence of central catheter-associated bloodstream infections exceeded that of hospitals participating in the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System. Interventions were implemented, and a cost-benefit analysis was done that led to hiring a vascular catheter care nurse. Subsequent outcome data demonstrated a substantial reduction in central catheter-associated bloodstream infections.
- Subjects
TEXAS; HOUSTON (Tex.); UNITED States; CATHETERIZATION complications; HOSPITALS; INFECTION treatment
- Publication
Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2001, Vol 7, Issue 2, p293
- ISSN
1080-6040
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.3201/eid0702.010229