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Correction to Pronovost et al., N Engl J Med 355(26):2725-2732 December 28, 2006.

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Volume 356:2660 June 21, 2007 Number 25

An Intervention to Decrease Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections in the ICU

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An Intervention to Decrease Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections in the ICU . In the first paragraph under the "Measurement and Categorization of Data" heading (page 2727), the sixth sentence should have read, "We defined a central catheter as a catheter that ends at or near the heart or in a great vessel close to the heart, which included peripherally inserted central catheters, and the teams were explicitly instructed to count the use of multiple lines in one patient as 1 catheter-day, in accordance with the NNIS guidelines," rather than "great vessel close to the heart, and the teams were explicitly instructed . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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