Prevention of Catheter-related Infections
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Clinical Infectious Diseases 2011; 52:e1–32
These guidelines have been developed for healthcare personnel who insert intravascular catheters and for persons responsible for surveillance and control of infections in hospital, outpatient, and home healthcare settings. This report was prepared by a working group comprising members from professional organizations representing the disciplines of critical care medicine, infectious diseases, healthcare infection control, surgery, anesthesiology, interventional radiology, pulmonary medicine, pediatric medicine, and nursing. more »
Kathy, this is actually the CDC Guidelines released on their website April 1 and reprinted in the IDSA journal. It is not a new set of IDSA guidelines. Lynn
Lynn Hadaway, M.Ed., RN, NPD-BC, CRNI
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