Canadian Journal of Infectious Diseases and Medical Microbiology (Jan 2010)

Trends in Nosocomial Bloodstream Infections following Health Care Restructuring in Alberta between 1999 and 2005

  • Mao-Cheng Lee,
  • Lynora Saxinger,
  • Sarah E Forgie,
  • Geoffrey Taylor

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/123764
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 21, no. 1
pp. e1 – e5

Abstract

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OBJECTIVE: A previous study at the University of Alberta Hospital/Stollery Children’s Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta, revealed an increase in hospital-acquired bloodstream infection (BSI) rates associated with an increase in patient acuity during a period of public health care delivery restructuring between 1993 and 1996. The present study assessed trends in BSIs since the end of the restructuring.