3 years out, safety checklist continues to keep hospital infections in check

The state of Michigan, which used a five-step checklist developed at Johns Hopkins to virtually eliminate bloodstream infections in its hospitals' intensive care units, has been able to keep the number of these common, costly and potentially lethal infections near zero - even three years after first adopting the standardised procedures. A report on the work is being published in the February 20 issue of BMJ (British Medical Journal)...

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