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Healthcare worker rubbing sanitizer into their hands beside a wall-mounted dispenser labeled “KCL AM Quick-Care.”
February 21, 2013

Hand hygiene efforts helping to cut infection rates

Dramatic reductions in infection rates throughout Vanderbilt’s inpatient care units are strongly associated with gains in hand hygiene compliance, according to Chief Hospital Epidemiol-ogist Tom Talbot, M.D., MPH, associate professor of Preventive Medicine.

By Vanderbilt Health News
PICU Team quality-indicators poster, dated January 21, 2013, showing day counters for central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI), catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), and ventilator-associated infection; the lower section is partly cropped.
February 7, 2013

PICU reaches new milestone in fight against infections

On Jan. 10, the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt reached impressive new territory — 365 days without a single case of central line associated blood stream infection (CLABSI), catheter associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) or ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP).

By Paul Govern