Written clinical guidelines for CLABSI prevention available — 80 percent of middle income, 81 percent of high income countries Compliance with a bundle of recommended central line insertion ...

4. Not only did the bundle result in a considerable reduction in the overall mean CLABSI rate, with attention to compliance, it resulted in sustained CLABSI reduction for 14 months. 5.

Depending on the way the measure was analyzed, between 87 and 97 percent of ICUs had CLABSI-prevention policies. Between 69 and 91 percent had policies for VAP prevention, and between 27 and 68 ...

On Jan. 12, a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control uncovered many staff who perform home infusion therapy, or HIT, received no formal training on CLABSI surveillance.

Key takeaways: The SAFER Lines bundle was created to aid prevention efforts for CLABSIs. The bundle reduced inflammation and infections at insertion sites and hospitalizations. A prevention bundle ...

Since October 2011, Regions Hospital has had only two infections, giving the hospital an overall CLABSI rate of 0.59 per 1,000 central line days for 2011, which is still below the national ...

Lois Remington, RN, BSN, the quality manager at the center who designed and implemented CLABSI-prevention guidelines in the center, had her doubts that they would be able to make it one year ...