Volume 7, Number 2—April 2001
THEME ISSUE
4th Decennial International Conference on Nosocomial and Healthcare-Associated Infections
Introduction
The Impact of Hospital-Acquired Bloodstream Infections
Table 1
Deaths and death rates in the United States, 1997 (1)
No. of deaths | Crude death rate | ||
---|---|---|---|
Cause of death | (thousands) | (per 100,000) | % of all deaths |
Heart disease | 725.8 | 271.2 | 31.4 |
Malignancies | 537.4 | 200.8 | 23.2 |
Cerebrovascular disease | 159.9 | 59.7 | 6.9 |
Pneumonia and influenza | 88.4 | 33.0 | 3.8 |
Septicemia | 22.6 | 8.4 | 0.97 |
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