The Mortality of Hospital-Acquired Bloodstream Infections: Need for a New Vital Statistic?
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in International Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 17 (1) , 225-227
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/17.1.225
Abstract
Available data on both crude mortality and attributable mortality of hospital-acquired bloodstream infections suggest that such infections represent an important cause of death in the US. The use of 95% confidence limits for attributable mortality and current national vital statistics data for septicaemia corroborate the general hypothesis.Keywords
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