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A Simple Educational Intervention to Decrease Incidence of Central Line–Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) in Intensive Care Units with Low Baseline Incidence of CLABSI

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alfonso Pérez Parra,
María Cruz Menárguez,
María Jesús Pérez Granda,
María Jesús Tomey,
Belén Padilla and
Emilio Bouza
Alfonso Pérez Parra*
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Spain
María Cruz Menárguez
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Spain
María Jesús Pérez Granda
Affiliation:
Cardiac Postsurgical Intensive Care Unit, Spain
María Jesús Tomey
Affiliation:
Medical Intensive Care Unit, Spain
Belén Padilla
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Spain
Emilio Bouza
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, SpainHospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, and Red Española de Investigación en Patología Infecciosa (REIPI), Sevilla, Spain
*
Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, C/Dr Esquerdo 46, 28007 Madrid, Spain (alfonsperezp@gmail.com)
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Abstract

After an educational intervention in 3 intensive care units, 34 central line-associated bloodstream infections occurred in 11,582 central venous catheter [CVC]-days, compared with 45 episodes in 10,661 CVC-days before intervention (4.22 vs 2.94 episodes per 1,000 CVC-days [30.9% reduction]; P = .03, Wilcoxon rank sum test; P = .11, Poisson regression analysis).

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 9 , September 2010, pp. 964 - 967
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010 

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