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Investigators from multiple institutions conducted an observational study to examine trends in central line-associated blood-stream infections (CLABSI) and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) rates among children in intensive care. Data were obtained from US hospitals who reported CLABSIs from their NICU and PICU and CAUTIs from their PICU from 2013–2018 to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN). Investigators collected characteristics of participating hospitals, including their number of NICU and PICU beds and whether they restricted admissions to children, as well as causative CLABSI and CAUTI pathogens.
The primary outcome was device-associated CLABSI rates in NICUs and PICUs, expressed as infections per 1,000 central line days, and device-associated rates of CAUTIs in PICUs, expressed as infections per …
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