Infection Control Today - Bloodstream Infections

Safety Checklist Use Yields 10 Percent Drop in Hospital Deaths

A Johns Hopkins-led safety checklist program that virtually eliminated bloodstream infections in hospital intensive-care units throughout Michigan appears to have also reduced deaths by 10 percent, a new study suggests. Although prior research showed a major reduction in ...More

January 31, 2011

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APIC Leads Effort to Eliminate Bloodstream Infections

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) today announced a major initiative to eliminate one of the most preventable and deadly infections that patients can acquire in healthcare facilities: central line-associated bloodstream ...More

January 25, 2011

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Infusion Nurses Keep Patients Safer, Help Reduce Healthcare Costs

Nearly everyone who is admitted to a hospital has an IV inserted. If you're on the receiving end of an IV catheter, you know you want an expert who can get it right the first time. Nurses who specialize in infusion therapy, and in particular credentialed nurses (Certified ...More

January 18, 2011

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Multiple Interventions, Improved Procedures and Technology Help UNC Hospitals Reduce CLABSIs

Employing multiple interventions and armed with technology, clinicians at the University of North Carolina Hospitals worked with their hospital epidemiologists and infection preventionists and were able to reduce their rate of central line-associated bloodstream infections ...More

December 6, 2010

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Checklist Continues to Stop Bloodstream Infections, This Time in Rhode Island

Using a widely heralded Johns Hopkins checklist and other patient-safety tools, intensive care units across the state of Michigan reduced the rate of potentially lethal bloodstream infections to near zero. Now, led by the same Johns Hopkins patient-safety expert who ...More

December 2, 2010

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APIC Responds to JAMA Article on Surveillance for Public Reporting of Bloodstream Infection Rates

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) says it shares the concern expressed in the recent Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) study, "Quality of Traditional Surveillance for Public Reporting of Nosocomial Bloodstream ...More

November 15, 2010

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Study Finds Variation Regarding Surveillance of Bloodstream Infections

The quality of public reporting of bloodstream infection rates among hospitals may be effected by the variation in surveillance methods, according to a study in the Nov. 10 issue of JAMA. “Public reporting of hospital-specific infection rates is widely promoted as a means ...More

November 10, 2010

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Institutions Measure Bloodstream Infection Rates Differently

A new study looking at how hospitals identify pediatric patients who develop catheter-associated bloodstream infections (CA-BSI) found significant inconsistencies in the methods used to report the number of patients who develop them. The study, led by Matthew Niedner, MD, ...More

October 8, 2010

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Maryland Hospitals Commit to Eliminating Bloodstream Infections

Maryland’s hospitals are joining a nationwide initiative to eliminate serious bloodstream infections. This is a volunteer effort, like the Maryland Hospital Hand Hygiene Collaborative, the Maryland Patient Safety Center Neonatal Collaborative, and others, focused on ...More

October 5, 2010

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Study of Bloodstream Infections Reveals Inconsistent Surveillance Methods, Reporting Among Hospitals

A new study looking at how hospitals account for the number of pediatric patients who develop catheter-associated bloodstream infections (CA-BSIs) found substantial inconsistencies in the methods used to report the number of patients who develop these infections. The study, ...More

September 23, 2010

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