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In August 2010, the Center for Transforming Healthcare launched its fourth project which aims to ...
The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...
The Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE...
Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...
Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...
Seasonal influenza remains a serious public health concern. According to the CDC, seasonal influe...
The Standardized Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESRD (SCOPE) Quality Collaborative helps d...
A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...
Small but mighty describes Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hosp...
Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...
A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...
After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...
The Kishwaukee Community Hospital nurses and physicians recognized the opportunity to improve car...
Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...
Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...
Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...
As a small community hospital, ventilator-associated pneumonia incidence was low. However, the lo...
Occupying a five-block campus on Chicago's west side and serving an area that stretches about 15 ...
Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...
In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...
Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...
To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...
Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...
Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement estimates that 48 percent of intensive care unit patient...
Outside the intensive care unit, catheters remain in place for a longer duration; therefore, it i...
This project addresses the needs of patients at high risk for C. difficile on a complex medical u...
Rochester General Hospital's infection prevention team partnered with the surgical intensive care...
South Nassau Communities Hospital's goal for this initiative was to ensure rapid identification o...
Preventing health care-associated infections is a critical step in reducing morbidity and mortali...
Stony Brook University Medical Center joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement critical ca...
With hand hygiene compliance at 37.3 percent, Syosset Hospital implemented a comprehensive approa...
