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From: Chlorhexidine-impregnated sponge versus chlorhexidine gel dressing for short-term intravascular catheters: which one is better?

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Unadjusted and adjusted MCRI and CRBSI risk using marginal Cox models. Legend. MCRI: major catheter-related infection. CRBSI: catheter-related bloodstream infection. Sponge-dress: chlorhexidine-impregnated sponges. Gel-dress: chlorhexidine-impregnated dressing. *Adjustment variables were sex, mechanical ventilation at admission, experience of the operator, and insertion site. For the adjusted analyses for gel-dress in ICUs participating in both studies, we performed an additional analysis stratifying for ICU and we observed similar results for MCRI (HR 0.30, 95% CI 0.06–1.48, p = 0.14) and CRBSI (HR 0.16, 95% CI 0.02–1.70, p = 0.13)

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