Feature Story

February 8, 2010

Three Years Out, Safety Checklist Continues to Keep Hospital Infections in Check; Johns Hopkins' Cheap, Low-Tech Approach Can Be Sustained, Save Lives Over Time, Study Shows

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The state of Michigan, which used a five-step checklist developed at Johns Hopkins to virtually eliminate bloodstream infections in its hospitals' intensive care units, has been able to keep the number of these common, costly and potentially lethal infections near zero - even three years after first adopting the standardized procedures. A report on the work is being published in the February 20 issue of BMJ (British Medical Journal). Read more from this post.