. Implementing best-practice bundles effectively reduces HACs, but monitoring compliance can be burdensome. Texas Children's Hospital has streamlined reporting to quickly identify at-risk patients, track clinician adherence to these bundles, and reduce manual chart reviews for calculating HAC rates....
Impact of Leadership Walk-Arounds and Feedback from Senior Management to Reduce CLABSI Rates Background: Aster Medcity is a 400-bed tertiary-care hospital in India. Over the years, the CLABSI rates have been within the INICC benchmarks but much above the CDC benchmarks. Is it possible to...
CLABSI rates have been reduced, achieving zeroes in 13 of 15 units each for at least four months in 2007. We look forward to a similar reduction in SSIs as we focus more resources in that direction in 2008. But the methodology should be fair to hospitals. Only real infections should be ...
which indicate a nosocomial infection rate (number of HAI episodes/total number of patients admitted × 100) of 1.34%. In 2021, a total of 244,266 cases of CLABSI cases were documented, leading to a nosocomial infection rate of 7.9%. This rate is higher than the rates observed in previous...