American Journal of Infection Control 42 (2014) 1345
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Expression of Concern In the February 2014 issue, The American Journal of Infection Control (“AJIC”) published the article “Comparison of central lineassociated bloodstream infection rates when changing to a zero fluid displacement intravenous needleless connector in acute care settings” by Cynthia C. Chernecky, Denise Macklin, William R. Jarvis and Thomas V. Joshua. AJIC is publishing this Editorial Expression of Concern to alert our readers to the fact that
questions have been raised about the methods and data presented in this article. The questions focus in particular on the consistency of the statistics over various study periods as well as the methods by which study sites were chosen. An investigation is ongoing; upon the conclusion of the investigation, AJIC expects it will either correct this article or retract this article without replacement.
DOI of original article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2013.05.023 0196-6553/$36.00 - Ó 2014 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2014.10.011
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
American Journal of Infection Control
American Journal of Infection Control
journal homepage: www.ajicjournal.org
Expression of Concern In the February 2014 issue, The American Journal of Infection Control (“AJIC”) published the article “Comparison of central lineassociated bloodstream infection rates when changing to a zero fluid displacement intravenous needleless connector in acute care settings” by Cynthia C. Chernecky, Denise Macklin, William R. Jarvis and Thomas V. Joshua. AJIC is publishing this Editorial Expression of Concern to alert our readers to the fact that
questions have been raised about the methods and data presented in this article. The questions focus in particular on the consistency of the statistics over various study periods as well as the methods by which study sites were chosen. An investigation is ongoing; upon the conclusion of the investigation, AJIC expects it will either correct this article or retract this article without replacement.
DOI of original article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2013.05.023 0196-6553/$36.00 - Ó 2014 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2014.10.011
