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Reply to Weber, von Cube, Sommer, Wolkewitz: Necessity of a Competing Risk Approach in Risk Factor Analysis of Central-Line–Associated Bloodstream Infection

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 January 2017

Stefan Kuhle ,
Jillian H. Carter ,
Susan Kirkland ,
Joanne M. Langley ,
Bryan Maguire  and
Bruce Smith
Stefan Kuhle
Affiliation:
Departments of Pediatrics and Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Jillian H. Carter
Affiliation:
Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Susan Kirkland
Affiliation:
Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Joanne M. Langley*
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Bryan Maguire
Affiliation:
Departments of Pediatrics and Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Bruce Smith
Affiliation:
Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
*
Address correspondence to Joanne M. Langley MD, MSc, FSHEA, IWK Health Centre, Goldbloom RCC Pavilion, 4th floor, 5850/5980 University Avenue, Halifax, NS, Canada B3K 6R8 (joanne.langley@dal.ca).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , April 2017 , pp. 511
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© 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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