The Mortality of Hospital-Acquired Bloodstream Infections: Need for a New Vital Statistic?

作者：Richard P. Wenzel · 发表于：International Journal of Epidemiology · 年份：1988 · DOI：10.1093/ije/17.1.225 · 被引用次数：147 · 研究领域：Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment、Clinical Reasoning and Diagnostic Skills、Healthcare cost, quality, practices

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.