tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: " Cost effectiveness of antimicrobial catheters in the intensive care unit: addressing uncertainty in the decision"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Cost effectiveness of antimicrobial catheters in the intensive care unit: addressing uncertainty in the decision. | Available online http content 13 2 R35 Research Cost effectiveness of antimicrobial catheters in the intensive care unit addressing uncertainty in the decision Kate A Halton1 2 David A Cook3 Michael Whitby4 David L Paterson1 5 and Nicholas Graves1 2 1The Centre for Healthcare Related Infection Surveillance Prevention GPO Box 48 Brisbane Queensland 4001 Australia institute of Health Biomedical Innovation Queensland University of Technology 60 Musk Avenue Kelvin Grove Queensland 4059 Australia intensive Care Unit Princess Alexandra Hospital 199 Ipswich Road Woolloongabba Queensland 4102 Australia 4Infection Management Services Princess Alexandra Hospital 199 Ipswich Road Woolloongabba Queensland 4102 Australia 5University of Queensland Royal Brisbane Women s Hospital Butterfield Street Herston Queensland 4029 Australia Corresponding author Kate A Halton Received 13 Nov 2008 Revisions requested 17 Dec 2008 Revisions received 27 Feb 2009 Accepted 11 Mar 2009 Published 11 Mar 2009 Critical Care 2009 13 R35 doi cc7744 This article is online at http content 13 2 R35 2009 Halton et al. licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Open Access Abstract Introduction Some types of antimicrobial-coated central venous catheters A-CVC have been shown to be cost effective in preventing catheter-related bloodstream infection CR-BSI . However not all types have been evaluated and there are concerns over the quality and usefulness of these earlier studies. There is uncertainty amongst clinicians over which if any A-CVCs to use. We re-evaluated the cost effectiveness of all commercially available A-CVCs for prevention of CR-BSI in adult intensive care unit ICU patients. Methods We used a .