The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality announced that the rate of central line-associated bloodstream infections in newborns in neonatal intensive care units dropped by 58 percent in less than a year as a result of an AHRQ-funded patient safety program.
One hundred NICUs in nine states participated in an 11-month neonatal CLABSI reduction project led by the Health Research & Educational Trust of the American Hospital Association and the Perinatal Quality Collaborative of North Carolina.
Click here to read the full story on the neonatal CLABSI reduction project in Becker's ASC Review.
One hundred NICUs in nine states participated in an 11-month neonatal CLABSI reduction project led by the Health Research & Educational Trust of the American Hospital Association and the Perinatal Quality Collaborative of North Carolina.
Click here to read the full story on the neonatal CLABSI reduction project in Becker's ASC Review.