ADVIN.ORG - Association for the Défense of Victims of Nosocomial Infections

The HHC (Health and Hospital Corporation) has announced encouraging results in infection rates after a  3 years  intensive and focused battle to reduce the most common and fatal infections: 90% reduction for ventilator-associated pneumonia and 65% for central blood stream infections among adult patients in intensive care units.
HHC attributes the dramatic reduction in infection rates to the adoption of proven, lifesaving interventions, including a series of independent steps, called bundles, that when done together typically result in significantly better outcomes.
Results are regularly published on HHC  website.

03/20/2009, Pennsylvania University Hospital -Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) fell by more than 90 percent during the past three years at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

 

A widely heralded Johns Hopkins safety initiative to reduce bloodstream infections in intensive care units (ICUs) was implemented in 30 states starting Feb. 1 and could save an estimated $3 billion dollars and 30,000 lives annually.