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Diagnosis of Intravascular Device-Related Bloodstream Infection

Description

Outcome of individual studies evaluating intravascular device-related bloodstream infection

Format

A matrix with 78 rows and 8 columns. Each row represents study results, the columns are:

tp

number of true positives.

n1

number of patients with disease.

fp

number of false positives.

n2

number of patients without disease.

author

first author of the study.

year

publication date.

technique

diagnostic technique used in the study.

duration

duration of catheterization: short term or long term or both.

Source

The data were obtained from

Safdar N, Fine JP, Maki DG. (2005) Meta-analysis: methods for diagnosing intravascular device-related bloodstream infection. Ann Intern Med.; 142:451-66.