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The Devil is in the Details: Applying CAUTI and CLABSI Criteria ...

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Case 2<br />

• A patient with a PICC placed <strong>in</strong> ano<strong>the</strong>r facility has<br />

been <strong>in</strong> our hospital for <strong>the</strong> past week <strong>and</strong> now has<br />

a blood culture grow<strong>in</strong>g Ac<strong>in</strong>etobacter baumanii.<br />

Is th<strong>is</strong> a BSI?<br />

Is th<strong>is</strong> a <strong>CLABSI</strong>?<br />

Should it be attributed to our hospital or to <strong>the</strong><br />

facility that placed <strong>the</strong> PICC?

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