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Patient Safety Tool: Central Line Insertion Care Team Checklist

Johns Hopkins Medicine offers a free, downloadable checklist that can be used by care teams to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections. The central line insertion care team checklist ...
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How the Burn Trauma ICU Eliminated Central Line Infections

Less than a decade ago, CLABSIs were considered the most pervasive of all hospital-associated illnesses (HAIs). Across the United States, 500,000 patients contracted a CLABSI between 1990-2010—an ...
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Patient Safety Tool: Central Line Checklist by Johns Hopkins

Project Check offers a free, downloadable checklist designed to reduce harm associated with catheter-related bloodstream infections. The checklist was developed by Johns Hopkins Medicine to help ...
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The technique that could cut central line infection rates by 47%

Having a trained nurse or nurse team present during central line procedures or catheter insertion reduces the chance of infection for patients by 47%, according to new research from the Association ...