Introducing a series of interventions around central line insertion, including education, insertion bundle and process and outcome surveillance, can lead to a marked decline in the rate of central ...

Several interventions, including standardizing line insertion and maintenance processes and education, can help drive down central line-associated bloodstream infection rates, according to research ...

Penn Medicine’s flagship hospital noted zero central line-associated bloodstream infections in fiscal years 2022 and 2023, according to a study published Aug. 1 in Critical Care Nurse. In fiscal year ...

A Lancet study across Indian ICUs finds preventable central line bloodstream infections causing high mortality, driven by ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Accounting for the presence of multiple, concurrent central lines when calculating central line-associated ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The rate of central line-associated bloodstream infections in acute care hospitals increased significantly ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality announced that hospital neonatal intensive care units that participated in an AHRQ patient safety program cut their rate of central line-associated ...

Twenty-one states posted decreases in central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) in 2010, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This translates to a ...

Less than a decade ago, CLABSIs were considered the most pervasive of all hospital-associated illnesses (HAIs). Across the United States, 500,000 patients contracted a CLABSI between 1990-2010—an ...

DECATUR, Ala. (WHNT) – The Decatur Morgan Hospital announced Friday that it has reported a central line-associated bloodstream infection rate of zero. Data gathered by the Centers for Disease Control ...

The report also includes a national snapshot of the CLABSI infection risk linked to 10 common surgical procedures, including hip and knee arthroplasty, colon surgery, rectal surgery, coronary artery ...