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. 2021 Oct 5;73(7):e1758-e1761.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1373.

All-cause Mortality Due to Bacteremia during a 60-Day Non-Physician Healthcare Worker Strike

Filip Jansåker  1   2 , Mona Katrine Alberthe Holm  3 , Kim Oren Gradel  4   5 , Jenny Dahl Knudsen  1 , Jonas Bredtoft Boel  6 ; Danish Collaborative Bacteraemia Network (DACOBAN)
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All-cause Mortality Due to Bacteremia during a 60-Day Non-Physician Healthcare Worker Strike

Filip Jansåker et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

Abstract

This study explored all-cause mortality of bacteremia diagnosed during a 60-day non-physician healthcare worker strike in 2008. A significant change, with 5.0% (95% confidence interval [CI] 1.2-8.7%, P < .01) absolute risk increase, was seen in 90-day mortality during the strike (n = 598) compared with the rest of the study period 2000-2015 (n = 75 647).

Keywords: healthcare strike; bacteremia; bloodstream infection; epidemiology; mortality.

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