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ArticleCanada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada2023

Device and surgical procedure-related infections in Canadian acute care hospitals, 2017-2021.

Canadian, Nosocomial, Infection, Surveillance, Program1*

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Article in Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 22% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Clinician survey for the management of central venous catheter-related bloodstream infection: Catheter retention versus replacement.Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada = Journal officiel de l'Association pour la microbiologie medicale et l'infectiologie Canada · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Canadian
Nosocomial
Infection
Surveillance
Program1*

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a significant healthcare burden in Canada. National surveillance of HAIs at sentinel acute care hospitals is conducted by the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program. This article describes device and surgical procedure-related HAI epidemiology in Canada from 2017 to 2021. Methods: Data were collected from over 60 Canadian sentinel acute care hospitals between January 1, 2017, and December 31, 2021, for central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), hip and knee surgical site infections (SSIs), cerebrospinal fluid shunt SSIs and paediatric cardiac SSIs. Case counts, rates, patient and hospital characteristics, pathogen distributions and antimicrobial resistance data are presented. Results: Between 2017 and 2021, 2,898 device and surgical procedure-related infections were reported, with CLABSIs in intensive care units representing 69% (n=2,002) of all reported infections under surveillance. Significant rate increases were observed in adult mixed intensive care unit CLABSIs (1.08-2.11 infections per 1,000 line days, Conclusion: Epidemiological and microbiological trends among select device and surgical procedure-related HAIs are essential for benchmarking infection rates nationally and internationally, identifying any changes in infection rates or antimicrobial resistance patterns and helping inform hospital infection prevention and control and antimicrobial stewardship policies and programs.

Indexed as

acute careantimicrobial resistanceCanadacentral line-associated bloodstream infectioncerebrospinal fluid shunt surgical site infectionCLABSIdevice-associated infectionhip and knee arthroplasty surgical site infectionhospital-associated infectionpaediatric cardiac surgical site infectionsurgical procedure-related infectionsurgical site infectionsurveillance

Identifiers

PMID38419908
PMCPMC10901258
OpenAlexW4378906290

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