Health care-associated infections among critically ill children

What The Study Did: This observational study looked at changes from 2013 to 2018 in the rates of catheter-associated bloodstream and urinary tract infections among critically ill infants and children the United States.

Authors: Heather E. Hsu, M.D., M.P.H., of the Boston University School of Medicine, is the corresponding author.

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(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2020.3223)

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