Publications by authors named "Laia Badia-Cebada"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates whether antibiotic therapy is necessary for low-risk catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI) caused by coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) after catheter removal.
- Conducted in 14 Spanish hospitals, the trial randomized 27 patients—15 received no antibiotics while 12 received standard antibiotic treatment—focusing on complications and recovery time over 90 days.
- Results showed that one patient in the non-antibiotic group developed a complication, suggesting that low-risk CRBSI due to CoNS might be safely managed without antibiotics, although the trial was halted due to low participant numbers.
We compared hospital-acquired catheter-related bacteremia (CRB) episodes diagnosed at acute care hospitals in Catalonia, Spain, during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 with those detected during 2007-2019. We compared the annual observed and predicted CRB rates by using the negative binomial regression model and calculated stratified annual root mean squared errors. A total of 10,030 episodes were diagnosed during 2007-2020.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackgroundCatheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI) are frequent healthcare-associated infections and an important cause of death.AimTo analyse changes in CRBSI epidemiology observed by the Infection Control Catalan Programme (VINCat).MethodsA cohort study including all hospital-acquired CRBSI episodes diagnosed at 55 hospitals (2007-2019) in Catalonia, Spain, was prospectively conducted.
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