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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
; 34(1): 89-92, 2013 Jan.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-23221198
RESUMO
We used differential time to positivity between central and peripheral blood cultures to evaluate the positive predictive value (PPV) of the National Healthcare Safety Network central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) surveillance definition among hematology patients with febrile neutropenia. The PPV was 27.7%, which suggests that, when the definition is applied to this population, CLABSI rates will be substantially overestimated.