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A widely heralded Johns Hopkins safety initiative to reduce bloodstream infections in intensive care units (ICUs) was implemented in 30 states starting Feb. 1 and could save an estimated $3 billion dollars and 30,000 lives annually.
"We ran this program in 77 hospitals and 103 intensive care units in Michigan for 18 months, and infections rates dropped 66 percent," says Peter Pronovost, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Johns Hopkins Quality and Safety Research Group (QRSG). "As a result, $200 million and an estimated 2,000 lives were saved. I'm confident we'll see a similar result nationwide."

Read the article published by News Medicine.net, March, 02, 2009

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