"Prevalence of Primary Bloodstream Infections in Representative German Hospitals and Their Association with Central and Peripheral Vascular Catheters."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Zentralblatt Fur Bakteriologie - International Journal of Medical Microbiology Virology Parasitology and Infectious Diseases, "The prevalence of noncentral and central lines and the prevalence of nosocomial primary bloodstream infections was investigated in 72 representative German hospitals (NIDEP Study). Data from a total of 14,966 patients were documented. On the prevalence day, it amounted to 23.9% for noncentral and 5.1% for central lines. The total prevalence of nosocomial primary bloodstream infections was 0.3%. 8.3% of all nosocomial infections recorded were primary bloodstream infections. The device utilization...

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