Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
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Multicenter Study
Nosocomial bloodstream infections in US hospitals: analysis of 24,179 cases from a prospective nationwide surveillance study.
Nosocomial bloodstream infections (BSIs) are important causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. ⋯ In this study, one of the largest multicenter studies performed to date, we found that the proportion of nosocomial BSIs due to antibiotic-resistant organisms is increasing in US hospitals.