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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nutrition. 2012 Aug 2;29(1):52–59. doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2012.03.010

Table 2B.

Bloodstream infections

Time post-discharge # Infections # patients affected/month Rate/1000 catheter-days 95% confidence interval
1st month 34 26 11.6 7.9 to 17.1
2nd month 28 26 13.2 9.3 to 18.6
3rd month 17 17 12.4 8.5 to 18.1
4th month 14 13 13.0 8.3 to 20.3
5th month 7 5 8.8 3.7 to 20.6
6th month 2 2 3.3 1.0 to 11.0
Overall Total = 102 11.5 9.3 to 14.2