Table 1.

Hospitalization and CRBSI rates by vascular access type

Rate	Fistula	Graft	Tunneled catheter	Nontunneled catheter
Hospitalization (Per 100 patient-months)	7.7	9.2	15.7	34.7
CRBSI (Per 100 patient-months)	0.5	0.9	4.2	27.1

Notes: Pooled mean data from the National Health and Safety Network allows for quantification of the rate of infection as it relates to access type. Adapted with permission from John Wiley and Sons from Klevens RM, Edwards JR, Andrus ML, et al. Special Report: Dialysis surveillance report: national healthcare safety network (NHSN)-data summary for 2006. Semin Dial. 2007;21(1):24–28.5 Copyright © 2007 Blackwell Publishing.5

Abbreviation: CRBSI, catheter-related bloodstream infection.