In this issue of BMJ Quality & Safety , Meddings et al 1 report the evaluation of a national effort to reduce two well-known safety targets, central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and ...

Objective To decrease the incidence of bloodstream infection (BSI) for neonates <29 weeks gestation through quality improvement. Design Commencing in September 2011, eight neonatal intensive care ...

Oregon hospitals have reported a modest decline in health care-associated infections (HAIs) among patients in 2023, according to new data from OHA.

Conclusion There is a substantial body of quasi-experimental evidence to suggest that care bundles may reduce CLABSI rates in the NNU, though it is not clear which bundle elements are effective in ...

• CLABSI - Acute Care Unit “Creating safe facilities requires commitment every day from our health care team, from medical providers to the environmental services staff.

Since the work to reduce CLABSI disparities started in 2019, the overall rate of inpatient CLABSI dropped to 1.15 infections per 1,000 line days in fiscal year 2023. For Black and African American ...

The number of central line-associated bloodstream infections at Asante Rogue Regional Medical Center in Medford remained high in 2023 despite hospital claims of a decrease. That’s according to ...

The author reviews the patient, provider, and device factors that contribute to central line–associated bloodstream infections and discusses preventive strategies.

DTP for diagnosing CLABSI has the potential to reduce healthcare expenditures because of the significant costs associated with line removal, according to Dhaliwal, and could decrease “unnecessary ...

PURPOSEParenteral nutrition (PN) has been shown to be a safe method of feeding in the intensive care unit with modern infection prevention practices, but similar analysis in the hematology-oncology ...

What are the limitations of the evidence? Compared to PI, we have little confidence that chlorhexidine is better at preventing CRBSI, CLABSI, or death, and we are not confident in the evidence that ...