Hospitals in states that required central line-associated bloodstream infection reporting did not have lower CLABSI rates than hospitals in states without this requirement, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
Researchers compared two types of CLABSI rates: those from hospitals required by the state to report the infections and those from hospitals without such a requirement.
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