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01-01-2019 | Letter

Clarification of errors in Abbas et al.’s conflict of interest narrative review

Author: Robert A. Weinstein

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 1/2019

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Dear Editor, …

Abbas M, Pires D, Peters A, Morel CM, Hurst S, Holmes A, Saito H, Allegranzi B, Lucet JC, Zingg W, Harbarth S, Pittet D (2018) Conflicts of interest in infection prevention and control research: no smoke without fire. A narrative review. Intensive Care Med. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5361-z PubMedCentralCrossRefPubMed

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Climo MW, Yokoe DS, Warren DK, Perl TM, Bolon M, Herwaldt LA et al (2013) Effect of daily chlorhexidine bathing on hospital-acquired infection. N Engl J Med 368(6):533–542CrossRefPubMedCentralPubMed

Munoz-Price LS, Hota B, Stemer A, Weinstein RA (2009) Prevention of bloodstream infections by use of daily chlorhexidine baths for patients at a long-term acute care hospital. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 30(11):1031–1035CrossRefPubMed

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Popovich KJ, Hota B, Hayes R, Weinstein RA, Hayden MK (2010) Daily skin cleansing with chlorhexidine did not reduce the rate of central line associated bloodstream infection in a surgical intensive care unit. Intensive Care Med 36(5):854–858CrossRefPubMed

Vernon MO, Hayden MK, Trick WE, Hayes RA, Blom DW, Weinstein RA (2006) Chlorhexidine gluconate to cleanse patients in a medical intensive care unit: the effectiveness of source control to reduce the bioburden of vancomycin-resistant enterococci. Arch Intern Med 166(3):306–312CrossRefPubMed

Title: Clarification of errors in Abbas et al.’s conflict of interest narrative review
Author: Robert A. Weinstein
Publication date: 01-01-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 1/2019
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5471-7

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