作者
Hakan Leblebicioglu, Recep Öztürk, Victor Daniel Rosenthal, Özay Arıkan Akan, Fatma Sirmatel, Davut Ozdemir, Cengiz Uzun, Huseyin Turgut, Gulden Ersoz, Iftíhar Koksal, Asu Özgültekin, Saban Esen, Fatma Ulger, Ahmet Dilek, Hava Yilmaz, Yalim Dikmen, Gökhan Aygún, Melek Tulunay, Mehmet Oral, Necmettin Ünal, Mustafa Cengiz, Leyla Yilmaz, Mehmet Faruk Geyik, Ahmet Şahin, Selvi Erdogan, Suzan Sacar, Hülya Sungurtekin, Doğaç Uğurcan, Ali Kaya, Necdet Kuyucu, Gürdal Yýlmaz, Selçuk Kaya, Hülya Ulusoy, Asuman İnan
发表日期
2013/1
期刊
Annals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials
卷号
12
页码范围
1-10
出版商
BioMed Central
简介
Background
Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABs) have long been associated with excess lengths of stay, increased hospital costs and mortality attributable to them. Different studies from developed countries have shown that practice bundles reduce the incidence of CLAB in intensive care units. However, the impact of the bundle strategy has not been systematically analyzed in the adult intensive care unit (ICU) setting in developing countries, such as Turkey. The aim of this study is to analyze the impact of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) multidimensional infection control approach to reduce the rates of CLAB in 13 ICUs of 13 INICC member hospitals from 8 cities of Turkey.
Methods
We conducted active, prospective surveillance before-after study to determine CLAB rates in a cohort of 4,017 adults …
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