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- Title
Surveillance length and validity of benchmarks for central line-associated bloodstream infection incidence rates in intensive care units.
- Authors
Fontela, Patricia S; Quach, Caroline; Buckeridge, David; Pai, Madukhar; Platt, Robert W
- Abstract
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 benchmarks for intensive care units (ICUs).
- Publication
PloS one, 2012, Vol 7, Issue 5, pe36582
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0036582