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Hi Leighann,
Can you publish your data?
Beth Ferguson
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Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 8:00
PM
Subject: Re: PICC infections
I feel compelled to point out that not everyone has this infection rate.
Our current PICC infection rate is 0.57 incidents/1000 catheter days. While
this varies some, it rarely goes about 1.0/1000 days. This does not match our
CVC infection rate. We are not inclined to reduce PICC usage because of this
published data, because our facility data differs from that. If we were seeing
the same or higher infection rate with PICCs as short-term CVCs, it would be
cause for us to explore the sources of the problem, and consider the wisdom of
PICC usage.
Leigh Ann
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