Estimating racial differences in risk for CLABSI in a large urban healthcare system

• Main Authors: Giancarlo Licitra (Author), Scott Fridkin (Author), Zanthia Wiley (Author), Lindsey Gottlieb (Author), William Dube (Author), Vishnu Ravi Kumar (Author), Rachel Patzer (Author), Radhika Prakash Asrani (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Cambridge University Press, 2023-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Socioeconomic barriers or divergent implementation of prevention measures may impact risk of healthcare-associated infections by racial groups. We utilized a previously studied cohort of patients to quantify disparities in central-line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) risk by ra...