Eliminating catheter-related bloodstream infections in the intensive care unit*

By S. Berenholtz, Peter J. Pronovost, P. Lipsett, D. Hobson, K. Earsing, J. Farley, Shelley Milanovich, E. Garrett-Mayer, B. Winters, H. Rubin and 2 more. Critical Care Medicine, 2004

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Subfields: Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Emergency Medical Services, Epidemiology

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In Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine

1. Emily R. M. Sydnor
2. Trish Perl

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1. David W. Bates
2. Peter J. Pronovost
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Citations in the corpus

• The checklist--a tool for error management and performance improvement. (2006, background): “3/1000 to 0/1000 catheter days over the course of the study period [32].”
• Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control in Acute-Care Settings (2011, background): “The implementation of the CLABSI prevention bundle has significantly reduced CLABSI rates at multiple institutions (21, 264).”
• Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections. (2011, neutral): “Επιπλέον, αμφότερες οι ελεγχόμενες μελέτες διαπίστωσαν επίσης στατιστικά σημαντική μείωση της CRBSI στις μονάδες παρέμβασης σε σχέση με τις μονάδες ελέγχου [15, 70].”
• Guidelines for the prevention of intravascular catheter-related infections. (2002, neutral): “Investigators have also employed multifaceted approaches in which several strategies are bundled together to improve compliance with evidence-based guidelines [15, 69, 70].”
• The Critical Care Safety Study: The incidence and nature of adverse events and serious medical errors in intensive care* (2005, background): “Proven interventions to reduce ICU infection rates include hand-hygiene compliance (34), full sterile barrier precaution during catheter insertions (35), and empowering nurses to stop catheter insertion procedures if guideline or sterility violations are observed (36).”