Randomized clinical trial analyzing maintenance of peripheral venous catheters in an internal medicine unit: Heparin vs. saline

• María Jesús Pérez-Granda ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mariaguembe@hotmail.com (MG); massus@hotmail.es (MJP-G)

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, H.G.U. Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, Department of Nursing, School of Nursing, Physiotherapy and Podiatry, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias-CIBERES (CB06/06/0058), Madrid, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0613-2122

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• Emilio Bouza,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CIBER Enfermedades Respiratorias-CIBERES (CB06/06/0058), Madrid, Spain, Medicine Department, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, Infection Study Group of the Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna, Madrid, Spain

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• Blanca Pinilla,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Infection Study Group of the Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna, Madrid, Spain, Department of Internal Medicine, H.G.U. Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

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• Raquel Cruces,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, H.G.U. Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

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• Ariana González,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

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• Jesús Millán,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, H.G.U. Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

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• María Guembe

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mariaguembe@hotmail.com (MG); massus@hotmail.es (MJP-G)

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, H.G.U. Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain

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