CLABSI – AZ Dept. of Health Services Director's Blog

Preventing Hospital Associated Infections in AZ: New Performance Data

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:50:41-07:00February 15th, 2013|Prevention|

A new CDC report released this week gave a status update on the national Winnable Battle to reduce hospital associated infections. Not all medical procedures carry the same risk of infection, so the report uses something called a standardized infection ratio to compare infection rates among hospitals. It’s a complicated statistic, but basically, it divides [...]

Hospital Bloodstream Infection Rates Go Online

By Will Humble|2017-02-10T09:51:17-07:00February 23rd, 2012|General, Prevention|

Bloodstream infections that start because of a “central line” in a person’s body are among the most serious of all healthcare-associated infections- causing thousands of deaths each year and about $700M in added costs. The CDC estimates that there were about 41,000 infections like these U.S. hospitals last year… and 25% percent of patients who [...]