1 Division of Infectious Diseases, Brown University School of Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence
2 University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville
3 Section of Infectious Diseases, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
4 Department of Internal Medicine Specialties, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
5 Critical Care Medicine Department, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
6 Section of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston
7 Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Boston Medical Center and Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Boston, Burlington, Massachusetts
This guideline was prepared jointly by the Intravenous Guideline Subcommittee of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the American College of Critical Care Medicine (for the Society of Critical Care Medicine), and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. The guideline is published concurrently in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (2001, vol. 22, no. 4) and will be published in the Journal of Intravenous Nursing (2001, vol. 24, no. 3).
Reprints or correspondence: Dr. Donald E. Craven, Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, MA 01806 ([email protected]).
Received December 14, 2000
