Authors

  1. Section Editor(s): Kennedy, Maureen Shawn MA, RN

Article Content

80%: the reduction in the average rate of central line-associated bloodstream infections that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has set as the goal for its "10-state project." In this project, hospitals in 10 states will test methods for reducing these infections from a national average of five infections for every 1,000 catheter days to one.