Wenzel R P
Department of Medicine, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City 52242.
Int J Epidemiol. 1988 Mar;17(1):225-7. doi: 10.1093/ije/17.1.225.
Available data on both crude mortality and attributable mortality of hospital-acquired bloodstream infections suggest that such infections represent an important cause of death in the US. The use of 95% confidence limits for attributable mortality and current national vital statistics data for septicaemia corroborate the general hypothesis.