Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections

Collaborators, Affiliations

Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC):
Patrick J Brennan, Dale Bratzler, Lillian A Burns, Alexis Elward, Susan Huang, Tammy Lundstrom, Yvette S Mccarter, Denise M Murphy, Michael R Bell, Stephen Ostroff, Russell N Olmsted, David Alexander Pegues, Peter J Pronovost, Barbara M Soule, William P Schecter, William B Baine, Jeannie Miller, Sheila A Murphey, Rachel L Stricof, Mark Russi, Sandra L Fitzler, Roslyne Schulman, Barbara DeBaun, Joan C Blanchard, Marion Kainer, David Henderson, Gary A Roselle, Lisa Mcgiffert, W Charles Huskins, Shirley Paton, Lisa Maragakis, Sanjay Saint, Robert A Wise

¹ Critical Care Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

Naomi P O'Grady et al. Clin Infect Dis. 2011 May.

. 2011 May;52(9):e162-93.

doi: 10.1093/cid/cir257. Epub 2011 Apr 1.

Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC):
Patrick J Brennan, Dale Bratzler, Lillian A Burns, Alexis Elward, Susan Huang, Tammy Lundstrom, Yvette S Mccarter, Denise M Murphy, Michael R Bell, Stephen Ostroff, Russell N Olmsted, David Alexander Pegues, Peter J Pronovost, Barbara M Soule, William P Schecter, William B Baine, Jeannie Miller, Sheila A Murphey, Rachel L Stricof, Mark Russi, Sandra L Fitzler, Roslyne Schulman, Barbara DeBaun, Joan C Blanchard, Marion Kainer, David Henderson, Gary A Roselle, Lisa Mcgiffert, W Charles Huskins, Shirley Paton, Lisa Maragakis, Sanjay Saint, Robert A Wise

¹ Critical Care Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.

No abstract available

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