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To the Editor: The report by Pronovost et al. (Dec. 28 issue)¹ on an intervention to decrease catheter-related bloodstream infections in the intensive care unit (ICU) would have been more convincing had the authors substantiated that the decline in the rate of these infections was matched by a decline in the number of positive blood cultures or in the use of antibiotics. A culture of safety in which the rates of catheter-related bloodstream infections were an explicit benchmark of quality could have biased clinicians against attributing positive blood cultures to such infections. The seemingly straightforward criteria for catheter-related bloodstream infections . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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