Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections☆☆☆

Bethesda, Maryland; Cambridge, Worcester, and Boston, Massachusetts; Seattle, Washington; Atlanta, Georgia; Madison, Wisconsin; Providence, Rhode Island; Houston, Texas; and Chicago, Illinois

From the Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, representing Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA)^a; Infusion Nurses Society (INS), Cambridge^b; Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle, representing Surgical Infection Society (SIS) and SCCM^c; Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Infectious Disease, CDC, Atlanta^d; Department of Anesthesiology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, representing American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) and American Society of Critical Care Anesthesiologists (ASCCA)^e; Infectious Diseases Section, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison^f; University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, Madison, representing Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)^g; Division of Infectious Diseases, Rhode Island Hospital, and Brown University School of Medicine, Providence^h; Department of Medical Specialties, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houstonⁱ; Departments of Anesthesia and Pediatrics, the Children's Hospital, Boston^j; Division of Infectious Disease, Cook County Hospital and Rush Medical College, Chicago, representing Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA).^k

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