Study: Front-Line Engagement, Education Can Reduce CLASBI Rates Outside ICU SHEA, APIC, Joint Commission & Others Develop CLABSI Prevention Guidance Reducing CLABSI Rates: 3 Hospitals’ Approaches ...

Accounting for the presence of multiple, concurrent central lines when calculating central line-associated bloodstream infections, or CLABSIs, lowered CLABSI rates by 25% over the course of 18 ...

Researchers found 74 of 3,932 patients (1.9 percent) with two catheters inserted at the same time developed CLABSI, as compared to 81 of 7,864 patients (1 percent) with only one catheter.

Central line bloodstream infections reduced at one hospital. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2014 / 06 / 140605082743.htm ...

The rate of central line-associated bloodstream infections in acute care hospitals increased significantly during the pandemic, researchers reported in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Background Many efforts contributed to the national decline of central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) in intensive care units (ICU). (See here, here, here, here, here, and here.) ...

The toolkit — “Preventing Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections – Useful Tools, An International Perspective,” along with a 2012 monograph, includes information and guidance on practices, ...

But when staff stopped using alcohol impregnated line caps because of a change in the healthcare system's procedures, in January, 2013, they saw CLABSI rates doubling as high as 2.27 line ...

Proving that dreaded hospital central line bloodstream infections (CLABSI) can be reduced, a federal report shows a decline in intensive care unit bloodstream infections of 58% in 2009 compared ...

Reports of central line-associated bloodstream infections using the National Healthcare Safety Network criteria differ significantly from CLABSI reports based on claims codes, according to a study in ...