Getting Started Kit
Updated How-to Guide with instructions for implementing the change in your organization, including changes and measures.
How-to Guide Pediatric Supplement with recommendations for implementing the change in a pediatric setting.
PowerPoint presentation with Facilitator Notes to introduce and explain the intervention in your organization.
Download a one page summary
Updated Annotated Bibliography
Rural Supplement to the How-to Guide
Mentor Hospitals
The organizations on the Mentor Hospital Registry have volunteered to provide support, advice, clinical expertise, and tips to hospitals seeking help with their implementation efforts.
Prevent Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Mentor Hospitals
Tools
Tools for hospitals working to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections.
Central Line Insertion Checklist from Peter Pronovost, MD
Frequently Asked Questions about Central Line Infections
Prevent Central Line Infections: A Fact Sheet for Patients and Families
Prevent Central Line Infections: A Fact Sheet for Patients and Families - Spanish Translation
Central Line Insertion Checklist
Hand Hygiene Getting Started Kit
CDC's Hand Hygiene Training Module
Measurement Information Forms
Detailed information on the process and outcome measures outlined in the How-to Guide.
Central Line Bundle Compliance
Associated Primary Bloodstream Infection BSI Rate per 1000 Central Line Days
Improvement Stories
Read improvement stories and learn how others have succeeded in preventing central line-associated bloodstream infections.
Find out how hospitals that eliminate hospital-acquired infections save lives (and money)
View a PowerPoint presentation on Overlake Hospital's participation in the IHI Critical Care Collaborative
Learn about HealthPartners' Regions Hospital's use of the Ventilator and Central Line Bundles
Read about organizations committed to eradicating Central Line Infections
Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, Memphis, TN, has reduced CR-BSIs and ICU length of stay by implementing the central line bundle and other measures to improve care in ICUs.
Allegheny General Hospital, part of the Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative (PRHI), Pittsburgh, PA, has virtually eliminated CR-BSIs by implementing measures included in the central line bundle.
Putting Safety on the (Central) Line. Read about the impressive work of Alleghey General Hospital and Our Lady of Lourdes in reducing central line infections.
MMWR Weekly: Reduction in Central Line--Associated Bloodstream Infections Among Patients in Intensive Care Units
Resources
Other resources available to help your quality improvement efforts.
SHEA's Compendium of Strategies to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections in Acute Care Hospitals
Join a Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection Web Discussion
Recommondations for Infection Control for the Practice of Anesthesiology (Second Edition): See Section III for information relevant to the Central Line Intervention
Pittsburgh Regional Healthcare Initiative
Improvement Methods
Web-based Training: The Model for Improvement (there is a fee associated with this training)
Download the Hand Hygiene Getting Started Kit
Call Recordings
Recordings of Campaign calls on preventing central line-associated bloodstream infections.
March 30, 2005 - Informational Call
August 8, 2005 - Follow up call
April 25, 2006 - Office Hours
July 26, 2006 - Office Hours
October 5, 2006 - Office Hours
January 30 - Office Hours
May 17, 2007 - Office Hours
October 30, 2007 - Office Hours
February 4, 2008 - Campaign LIVE!
The Road to Zero VAPs and CLIs
March 25, 2008 - Office Hours
June 26, 2008 - Office Hours
September 16, 2008 - Office Hours
Mentor: Stony Brook University Hospital, Handouts (PDF)
National Action Day Materials
On June 20, 2007, over 35,000 participants focused their attention on getting results faster and more reliably. Materials used during the prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections session are available for download.
Prevent Central-Line Associated Bloodstream Infection Session Recording
PPT Slides, Slides as Handouts, Checklist Tool, Changes Made Worksheet, Changes Planned Worksheet, Blank Planning Worksheet
Contact
For more information contact:
Fran Griffin, RRT, MPA
Email: fgriffin@ihi.org
Phone: (732) 869-0533
Or
Sean Townsend, MD
Email: Stownsend@ihi.org
Phone: 401-444-8424
