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