Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...

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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 vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...

November 9th, 2012
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A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...

June 1st, 2012
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In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...

February 1st, 2012
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Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...

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Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

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To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...

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Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

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Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...

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Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...

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Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...

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In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...

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Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...

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Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...

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The Problem According to the CDC, 248,000 bloodstream infections occur in U.S. hospitals each ye...

September 24th, 2009
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At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...

September 24th, 2009
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The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...

September 21st, 2009
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Health care acquired infections in U.S. hospitals account for 1.7 million infections and 99,000 a...

August 1st, 2009
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Th e P roblemUrinary tract infections are the most common hospital-acquired infection with 80 per...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumon...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem nationwide, caused, in part, by injudi...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem In 2007, all 19 regional perinatal programs in New York began looking at the reducti...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem Central line-associated bloodstream infections have vexed hospitals performing inter...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem In 2007, the Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality partnered with the Michi...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem With mechanical ventilation being a large part of care for critical patients, teh ne...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem Hand hygiene is the single most important way to prevent the spread of infection in ...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem The infection rate in the NICU at Charleston Area Medical Center was 18 percent in 2...

July 1st, 2009
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