Antibiotic use for presumed neonatally acquired infections far exceeds that for central line-associated blood stream infections: an exploratory critique

Improving Prediction Accuracy of “Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections” Using Data Mining Models

Prediction of nosocomial infections among patients is an important part of clinical surveillance programs to enable the related personnel to take preventive actions in advance. Designing a clinical surveillance program with capability of predicting nosocomial infections is a challenging task due to several reasons, including high dimensionality of medical data, heterogenous data representation,...

Blood Stream Infections

1 Department of Microbiology, BJ Government Medical College and Sassoon Hospital, Pune 411001, India 2Department of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital Crosshouse, NHS Ayrshire & Arran, School of Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK 3Department of Microbiology, Armed Forces Medical College, Pune 411040, India 4 Johns Hopkins University India Center, BJ Medical College, Pun...

Central line-associated blood stream infections: characteristics and risk factors for mortality over a 5.5-year period.

BACKGROUND/AIM Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality and the infection rates vary in a wide range1397645907(high: 62.5%; low: 20%) in developing countries. We aimed to investigate the characteristics and the risk factors for mortality in patients with CLABSIs in intensive care units (ICUs) and provide the relevant data. ...

Incidence and Risk Factors for Central-line Associated Bloodstream Infections

Risk Factors for Central line associated Bloodstream Infections.

OBJECTIVE To carry out surveillance of central line associated bloodstream infections in a Pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and determine associated risk factors. METHODS This prospective study was conducted over 1.5 years in the PICU. CDC definitions for these infections were followed and associated risk factors were identified. RESULTS Of 265 enrolled children with central line, 13 de...