Vascular catheter infections: time to get technical

Affiliations

¹ The Patient Safety Enhancement Program and Center for Clinical Management Research of the Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; The University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. Electronic address: vineetc@umich.edu.
² The Patient Safety Enhancement Program and Center for Clinical Management Research of the Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; The University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

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Vineet Chopra et al. Lancet. 2015.

. 2015 Nov 21;386(10008):2034-2036.

doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(15)00245-7. Epub 2015 Sep 18.

¹ The Patient Safety Enhancement Program and Center for Clinical Management Research of the Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; The University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. Electronic address: vineetc@umich.edu.
² The Patient Safety Enhancement Program and Center for Clinical Management Research of the Ann Arbor VA Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, MI, USA; The University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.

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Skin antisepsis with chlorhexidine-alcohol versus povidone iodine-alcohol, with and without skin scrubbing, for prevention of intravascular-catheter-related infection (CLEAN): an open-label, multicentre, randomised, controlled, two-by-two factorial trial.
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