Incidence of coagulase-negative staphylococcal bacteremia among ICU patients: decontamination studies as a natural experiment.

ABSTRACT: The epidemiology of coagulase-negative staphylococcal (CNS) bacteremia among adult ICU patients remains unclear. Decontamination studies among ICU patients provide a unique opportunity to study the impacts of different diagnostic criteria, exposure to various decontamination interventions, and various other factors, on its incidence over three decades. Decontamination studies among ICU patients reporting CNS bacteremia incidence data were obtained mostly from recent systematic reviews. The CNS bacteremia incidence within component (control and intervention) groups of decontamination studies was benchmarked versus studies without intervention (observational groups). The impacts of antibiotic versus chlorhexidine decontamination interventions, control group concurrency, publication year, and

SUBMITTER: Hurley JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7223507 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature