The purpose of the project was to improve the recognition and early goal directed treatment of pa...

March 12th, 2013
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The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...

March 12th, 2013
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Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...

March 6th, 2013
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The PICC team was created in March 2010 after the facility had documented an increase in PICC-ass...

March 6th, 2013
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The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...

March 6th, 2013
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An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...

March 6th, 2013
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Central line-associated bloodstream infections cause serious illness and death. Front-line caregi...

January 28th, 2013
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In August 2010, the Center for Transforming Healthcare launched its fourth project which aims to ...

November 28th, 2012
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Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

November 12th, 2012
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The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...

November 9th, 2012
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Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...

November 1st, 2012
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The Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE...

October 18th, 2012
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Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

October 11th, 2012
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On the CUSP: Stop BSI and Stop CAUTI aim to eliminate central line associated bloodstream infecti...

September 12th, 2012
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The following information is a guide of infection prevention recommendations for outpatient (ambu...

September 12th, 2012
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This online education program has been developed by infection control experts from Joint Commissi...

September 12th, 2012
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Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

September 9th, 2012
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Seasonal influenza remains a serious public health concern. According to the CDC, seasonal influe...

September 1st, 2012
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The Quality Transformation Network is a large and growing group of children's hospitals combining...

August 1st, 2012
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This multi-year NACHRI effort is focused on reducing CLABSI in the pediatric hematology/oncology ...

August 1st, 2012
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