CLABSI Rate Decrease in ICUs Participating in National Initiative. The percentage of hospitals with a CLABSI rate of <1.4 infections per 1,000 line-days increased from 48 percent at baseline to ...

The presence of a unit-based quality nurse to perform patient safety and infection control activities helped reduce the rate of central line-associated blood stream infections on a surgical intensive ...

Only one previous study has incorporated the use of a central line team in a NICU as part of an intervention to decrease CLABSI. They demonstrated an overall decrease in CLABSI rates from 4.9/1000 ...

FRANKLIN, Tenn., Aug. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Central lines are a common device in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and oncology patients; how ...

A combination of bottom-up and top-down approaches to a central line bundle intervention led to a 92 percent decrease in the rate of central line-associated bloodstream infections in an intensive ...

Hospitals should note that CMS has proposed adding CLABSI rates to the outcome domain of the 2015 Value-Based Purchasing program. CMS has proposed that the performance period for the measure would ...

The study found that the use of the antimicrobial lock solutions led to a 69 percent reduction in CLABSI rate and a 32 percent reduction in exit-site infections rate as compared to heparin.

The increase in CLABSI cases was attributed to four critical access hospitals reporting incidents in 2023, compared to just one in 2022. READ ALSO: Washington confirms second measles case ...

Simple Outpatient Protocols Reduce CLABSI by 48% | By John Commins | October 08, 2013. Topics. outpatient.

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Oregon hospitals saw slight decrease in health care-associated infections in 2023. by KATU Staff. Tue, ... (CLABSI) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections ...