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Comparing Nosocomial Infection Rates Among Surgical Intensive-Care Units: The Importance of Separating Cardiothoracic and General Surgery Intensive-Care Units

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Olivia Keita-Perse ,
Jonathan R. Edwards ,
David H. Culver  and
Robert P. Gaynes
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Abstract

Among surgical intensive-care units (ICUs), we assessed differences in risk-adjusted nosocomial infection rates between cardiothoracic (CT) and general surgery ICUs, using National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance data from 1987 to 1995. Device-associated rates and average length of stay were significantly lower in CT ICUs. Comparisons of risk-adjusted nosocomial infection rates among CT ICUs should be made separately from rates from general surgery ICUs.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , April 1998 , pp. 260 - 261
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1998 

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