Expert Blogs About Scrub-the-Hub Protocol to Protect Dialysis Patients

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Today, on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)s Safe Healthcare Blog, Gemma Downham, an infection prevention specialist and epidemiologist at AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, discusses how her team uses CDCs scrub-the-hub protocol every day to protect dialysis patients from infections.


CDC offers additional checklists and audit tools to make it easier for dialysis facilities to implement CDC infection prevention recommendations.

 
Join the conversation at http://blogs.cdc.gov/safehealthcare/?p=2448

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