By IDSE News Staff
U.S. hospitals are reducing bloodstream infections related to catheters by implementing rigorous safeguards that also save millions in health care costs each year, according to research led by Cedars-Sinai (JAMA Intern Med 2016;176(12):1843-1854).
Teryl Nuckols, MD, MSHS, the director of the Division of General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai, in Los Angeles, led a multicenter team that studied data published in the last decade on central