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AHRQ announces states involved in CLABSI prevention project
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) has decided which states will participate in its $3 million grant for preventing central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI) in intensive care units (ICU). This press release from the AHRQ caught my eye because I wrote a story for Briefings on Patient Safetywhen this program was announced. The program will model similar prevention efforts after the Johns Hopkins University and the Michigan Hospital Association’s project that reduced these types of infections in 100 Michigan ICUs. The states announced to be involved in the study are California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington.
The goal for these states is to reduce CLABSI by 80%. Currently, the rates of infection nationally are five per every 1,000 patient days. The Michigan program set the bar high, and is the reason for replication on a broader scale. Within three months there, infection rates in more than half or participating ICUs dropped to 0%.
It seems that there was so much interest in participating in the study that the AHRQ had to turn interested states away. However, it says that the Johns Hopkins Quality and Safety Research Group has received some additional private funding to involve some of those states.