The NHSN, the widely used health care–associated infection tracking system of the CDC, defines CLABSI as a laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infection in a patient who has had a central venous ...

Reports of central line-associated bloodstream infections using the National Healthcare Safety Network criteria differ significantly from CLABSI reports based on claims codes, according to a study in ...

Accounting for the presence of multiple, concurrent central lines when calculating central line-associated bloodstream infections, or CLABSIs, lowered CLABSI rates by 25% over the course of 18 ...

Researchers studied the discordance of CLABSI events reported from chart reviews, which use the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s NHSN criteria, with CLABSI events reported from ...

MBI-CLABSI occurred in 70% of CLABSI among patients exposed to PN and 73% of CLABSI among those not exposed. This proportion is consistent with findings from a study from another large academic ...

March 25, 2010 (Atlanta, Georgia) — Compliance with central line bundle policies in intensive care units (ICUs) across the nation appears to be low, although complete compliance is not needed to ...

Healthcare-associated infections in adults were more likely to be antibiotic resistant in cases involving use of medical devices than in those involving surgery, according to a new report.

• The total number of facility locations (intensive care units, wards and neonatal intensive care units) reporting this type of infection to the NHSN also grew from 5,493 in 2009 to 8,904 in ...