According to recent research from Buenos Aires, Argentina incorporating pooled central line infection rates from four institutions, a cumulative reduction in central line infections of 54% was achieved in 24 months (from 16.0 to 7.4 central line infections per 1,000 central line-days.) The number of deaths in patients with central line infections decreased by 58%. [...]

The study authors assert that the primary goal of hospital infection reporting is to identify and measure progress towards achieving the minimum number of bloodstream infections. Assessing the accuracy of reporting data using independent validation is critical to this goal. In January 2008, all 30 acute care hospitals in Connecticut began mandatory reporting of central [...]

Providers spent more of their resources and energy in 2009 than ever before to combat dangerous and costly hospital acquired infections. Large numbers of hospitals signed on to participate in initiatives such as On the CUSP: STOP BSI, an infection prevention program developed at Johns Hopkins University to curb rates of bloodstream infection (BSI). The [...]

Beginning January 1, 2011, most U.S. hospitals will begin reporting the number of patients who contract bloodstream infections following their treatment in intensive-care units. The information about hospital infections involving catheters or needless IV ports will be made public on a government website later in 2011, giving consumers a way to see which hospitals best [...]

Infection Control Today featured Ivera Medical, a San Diego-based medical device company, that introduced the Curos® Port Protector which is the first protector for the protection of needless IV port infection protection from exposure to touch and airborne contamination which cause hospital acquired blood stream infections such as costly and deadly central line infections from [...]