Computerized Checklist Reduces Hospital-Acquired Infections
April 29, 2014 | Terry Sharrer
As this piece reports from Stanford University Hospital: “[An] automated checklist, and a dashboard-style interface used to interact with it, made it fast and easy for caregivers to follow national guidelines for keeping patients’ central lines infection-free. The new system combed through data in the electronic medical record and pushed alerts to physicians and nurses when a patient’s central line was due for care. During the study, the rate of central line infections in the hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit dropped from 2.6 to 0.7 per 1,000 days of central line use.” MORE
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