An article by investigators in St. Louis, Missouri provides national estimates of the number of CLABSIs among patients in ICUs, inpatient wards, and outpatient hemodialysis facilities in 2008 and 2009 and compares ICU estimates with 2001 data. In 2001, an estimated 43,000 CLABSIs occurred among patients hospitalized in ICUs in the United States. In 2009, [...]