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. 2019 Mar;40(3):358-361.
doi: 10.1017/ice.2018.339. Epub 2019 Feb 18.

Preventability of hospital onset bacteremia and fungemia: A pilot study of a potential healthcare-associated infection outcome measure

Raymund B Dantes  1 , Clare Rock  2 , Aaron M Milstone  3 , Jesse T Jacob  4 , Sheri Chernetsky-Tejedor  1 , Anthony D Harris  5 , Surbhi Leekha  5
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Preventability of hospital onset bacteremia and fungemia: A pilot study of a potential healthcare-associated infection outcome measure

Raymund B Dantes et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2019 Mar.

Abstract

Hospital-onset bacteremia and fungemia (HOB), a potential measure of healthcare-associated infections, was evaluated in a pilot study among 60 patients across 3 hospitals. Two-thirds of all HOB events and half of nonskin commensal HOB events were judged as potentially preventable. Follow-up studies are needed to further develop this measure.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of interest. The authors report no financial conflicts of interest related to this article.

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Tool for adjudicating preventability of hospital onset bacteremia and fungemia (HOB) events (panel A), and HOB preventability across 3 academic medical centers, (panel B) (n = 60).
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