TY - JOUR
T1 - External validation of the Michigan PICC catheter-associated bloodstream infections score (MPC score) for predicting the risk of peripherally inserted central catheter-associated bloodstream infections
T2 - A single-center study in Japan
AU - Sakai, Hirotaka
AU - Iwata, Mitsunaga
AU - Terasawa, Teruhiko
N1 - Funding Information:
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Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - The Michigan peripherally inserted central catheter-associated bloodstream infection score (MPC score) had been developed for hospitalized medical patients but had not been externally validated. A retrospective analysis of a clinically heterogeneous case-mix in a university hospital cohort in Japan failed to validate its originally reported good performance.
AB - The Michigan peripherally inserted central catheter-associated bloodstream infection score (MPC score) had been developed for hospitalized medical patients but had not been externally validated. A retrospective analysis of a clinically heterogeneous case-mix in a university hospital cohort in Japan failed to validate its originally reported good performance.
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U2 - 10.1017/ice.2021.497
DO - 10.1017/ice.2021.497
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85121743063
JO - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
JF - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
SN - 0899-823X
ER -