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Volume 30, Number 1—January 2024
Dispatch

Increased Peripheral Venous Catheter Bloodstream Infections during COVID-19 Pandemic, Switzerland

Marie-Céline Zanella1, Eva Pianca1, Gaud Catho, Basilice Obama, Marlieke E.A. De Kraker, Aude Nguyen, Marie-Noëlle Chraiti, Jonathan Sobel, Loïc Fortchantre, Stephan Harbarth, Mohamed Abbas, and Niccolò BuettiComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Infection Control Programme and World Health Organization Collaborating Center, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland (M.-C. Zanella, E. Pianca, G. Catho, B. Obama, M.E.A. De Kraker, A. Nguyen, M.-N. Chraiti, L. Fortchantre, S. Harbarth, M. Abbas, N. Buetti); University of Geneva, Geneva (J. Sobel); MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, Jameel Institute, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK (M. Abbas); Université Paris-Cité, Paris, France (N. Buetti)

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Incidence rate ratios per 1,000 patient days in a study of intravascular catheter bloodstream infections during the COVID-19 pandemic, Switzerland, January 1, 2020–December 31, 2022. Squares indicate IRRs, bars indicate 95% CIs. Patient-days were used as the denominator; 2020 rates were used as the referent. BSI, bloodstream infection; CRABSI, catheter related or associated bloodstream infections; CVC, central venous catheter; IRR, incidence rate ratio; PVC, peripheral venous catheter.

Figure 2. Incidence rate ratios per 1,000 patient days in a study of intravascular catheter bloodstream infections during the COVID-19 pandemic, Switzerland, January 1, 2020–December 31, 2022. Squares indicate IRRs, bars indicate 95% CIs. Patient-days were used as the denominator; 2020 rates were used as the referent. BSI, bloodstream infection; CRABSI, catheter related or associated bloodstream infections; CVC, central venous catheter; IRR, incidence rate ratio; PVC, peripheral venous catheter.

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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