title: The mortality of hospital-acquired bloodstream infections: need for a new vital statistic?
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City 52242.
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Wenzel
mesh_terms: D003428:Cross Infection / Q000401:mortality*; D006801:Humans; D018805:Sepsis / Q000401:mortality*; D014481:United States; D014798:Vital Statistics