Making Health Care Safer; Reducing Bloodstream Infections

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• Alternative Title:
  Reducing bloodstream infections
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services.
• Description:
  "A central line is a tube that a doctor usually places in a large vein of a patient's neck or chest to give important medical treatment. When not put in correctly or kept clean, central lines can become a freeway for germs to enter the body and cause serious bloodstream infections. These infections can be deadly. Of patients who get a bloodstream infection from having a central line, up to 1 in 4 die. Bloodstream infections in patients with central lines are largely preventable when healthcare providers use CDC-recommended infection control steps. Medical professionals have reduced these infections in hospital intensive care unit (ICU) patients by 58% since 2001. Even so, many still occur in ICUs, in other parts of hospitals, and in outpatient care locations. In 2008, about 37,000 bloodstream infections occurred in hemodialysis outpatients with central lines." -p. 1
• Content Notes:
  Fact sheet released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office of Surveillance, Epidemiology and Laboratory Services (OSELS) in association with: Vital signs: central line--associated blood stream infections --- United States, 2001, 2008, and 2009, published: MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report ; v. 60, no. 8, p. 243-8.
  
  "CS220503B."
  
  "March 2011."
  
  "Publication date: 03/01/201."
  
  Title from title screen (viewed March 7, 2011).
  
  Introduction -- Latest findings -- Who's at risk? -- U.S. state information -- What can be done -- Social media
  
  Mode of access: World Wide Web
  
  Text document (PDF).
  
  
• Subjects:
  Bacterial Infections/prevention & Control Catheter-Related Infections Catheterization, Central Venous/adverse Effects Cross Infection Infection Control
• Source:
  Vital signs ; 2011 March ; MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report ; v. 60, no.8, p. 243-8
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Popular Works ; Fact Sheet
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  6 pdf pages
• Volume:
  60
• Issue:
  8
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:1d642de729a0ceba69912f82ee803860189fc875c13c9751ddad1d9577c769b9ce66b4e578315305402b1b62167fb9d51082b09487790a86cf97f9d17063e19f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/5866/cdc_5866_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.44 MB ]