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AHRQ’s Innovations Exchange Focuses on Reducing Hospital-Acquired Infections 
This week’s issue of AHRQ’s Health Care Innovations Exchange features profiles of three programs that used infection control measures to reduce hospital-acquired infections. One such profile is the nurse-physician teams at the University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. The teams conduct weekly grand rounds on hospital units with clinical staff and develop collegial relationships, perform surveillance, evaluate patient care needs, provide education, answer questions, and identify opportunities for system-wide quality improvement. The program reduced central line–associated bloodstream infections by 70 percent, surgical site infections associated with instrumented spinal surgery by 50 percent, and bloodstream infections associated with antibiotic-resistant bacteria by 25 percent.

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AHRQ Innovations Exchange | Nurse–Physician Infection Prevention Teams Conduct Rounds and Provide Support to Frontline Clinicians, Leading to Fewer Hospital-Acquired Infections