Healthcare associated bloodstream infections – secular trends of 8 years hospital-wide surveillance in a tertiary care university hospital

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  • M-N Chraiti
  • W Zingg
  • V Sauvan
  • D Pittet
چکیده

Methods Introduced 1995 in acute care, prospective and systematic BSI surveillance at the University of Geneva hospitals was extended to a hospital-wide survey in 2003. Positive blood culture results identified by an electronic automated alert system were individually investigated and allocated to the following categories: contamination, secondary BSI (sBSI), primary BSI (pBSI) and catheter-related BSI (CRBSI).

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دوره 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011