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Placing Venous Catheters in the Home: Pilot Data from the Mobile VAD Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2017

Sara C. Keller ,
Deborah Williams ,
Nathasha Hamler ,
Mitra Gavgani ,
David Hirsch ,
John Adamovich ,
Dawn Hohl  and
Sara E. Cosgrove
Sara C. Keller*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Deborah Williams
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins Home Care Group Baltimore, Maryland.
Nathasha Hamler
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins Home Care Group Baltimore, Maryland.
Mitra Gavgani
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins Home Care Group Baltimore, Maryland.
David Hirsch
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins Home Care Group Baltimore, Maryland.
John Adamovich
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins Home Care Group Baltimore, Maryland.
Dawn Hohl
Affiliation:
Johns Hopkins Home Care Group Baltimore, Maryland.
Sara E. Cosgrove*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
*
Address correspondence to Sara C. Keller, MD, MPH, MSHP, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1600 N. Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21287 (skeller9@jhmi.edu) or Sara E. Cosgrove, MD, MS, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1600 N. Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21287 (scosgro1@jhmi.edu).
Address correspondence to Sara C. Keller, MD, MPH, MSHP, Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1600 N. Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21287 (skeller9@jhmi.edu) or Sara E. Cosgrove, MD, MS, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 1600 N. Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21287 (scosgro1@jhmi.edu).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 38 , Issue 11 , November 2017 , pp. 1375 - 1377
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© 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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Footnotes

PREVIOUS PRESENTATION. These data were presented in part at the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America Spring 2017 meeting in St Louis, Missouri, on March 29, 2017.

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