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Article: Nursing Staff Composition and Rates of Bloodstream Infection.
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- Critical Care Alert
- Article date:
- August 1, 2000
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Nursing Staff Composition and Rates of Bloodstream Infection
Abstract & Commentary
Synopsis: Patients who acquired bloodstream infections were more likely to be hospitalized during periods when the nursing staff of the surgical ICU included more float and agency nurses.
Source: Robert J, et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2000;21:12-17.
In order to determine risk factors for nosocomial primary bloodstream infections (BSI), Robert and colleagues compared all patients admitted to a surgical ICU during a 13-month period who acquired primary BSI (case-patients, n = 28) with 99 randomly selected patients (controls) hospitalized in the ...