Health Care–Associated Bloodstream Infections in Adults: A Reason To Change the Accepted Definition of Community-Acquired Infections

Deborah Friedman, N.; S. Kaye, Keith; E. Stout, Jason; A. McGarry, Sarah; L. Trivette, Sharon; P. Briggs, Jane; Lamm, Wanda; Clark, Connie; MacFarquhar, Jennifer; L. Walton, Aaron; Barth Reller, L.; J. Sexton, Daniel

doi:10.7326/0003-4819-137-10-200211190-00007

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Health Care–Associated Bloodstream Infections in Adults: A Reason To Change the Accepted Definition of Community-Acquired Infections

Published in Annals of Internal Medicine • Nov 19, 2002

Authors:

N. Deborah Friedman

Keith S. Kaye

Jason E. Stout

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Bloodstream infections occurring in persons residing in the community, regardless of whether those persons have been receiving health care in an outpatient facility, have traditionally been categorized as community-acquired infections. OBJECTIVE: To develop a new classification scheme fo...

Subject

Medicine

Bloodstream infection

Health care

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