Nosocomial Infection

Nurse Staff Composition May Be Related to Blood Infection Rates

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, March 7th, 2000

Among other factors, the ratio of regular nurses to pool nurses in intensive care units may be a risk factor for contracting nosocomial blood infections, according to a study published in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.

W.R. Jarvis and colleagues studied a 20-bed surgical intensive care unit (SICU) in a 1,000-bed inner-city public hospital, comparing 28 patients with primary bloodstream infections (BSIs) to 99 random controls ("The influence of the composition of the nursing staff on primary bloodstream infection rates in a surgical intensive care unit," Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, January 2000;21(1):12-17).

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