Social skills: a resource for more social support, lower depression levels, higher quality of life, and participation in individuals with spinal cord injury?
Social skills are a resource related to more social support, lower depression scores, and higher QOL.
Eliminating the universal use of Chx-SS-coated CVCs in an SICU with a low background incidence of CR-BSIs did not result in an increase in the rate of CR-BSIs. This study documents the greater importance of adherence to standardization of the processes of care related to CVC placement than of coated CVC use in the reduction of CR-BSI.