In response to reader commentary on Jean DerGurahian's "Sebelius touts ICU care checklist in ‘success' report": Isn't it amazing how politically motivated commentators can twist things in their favor?

Project Check offers a free, downloadable checklist designed to reduce harm associated with catheter-related bloodstream infections. The checklist was developed by Johns Hopkins Medicine to help ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine offers a free, downloadable checklist that can be used by care teams to prevent central line-associated bloodstream infections. The central line insertion care team checklist ...

THE CHECKLIST....If you've ever been treated in an ICU, there's a good chance you've been fitted at some point with a "central line," a catheter sewn into a large vein and used to deliver medications ...

To determine the association of a central-line maintenance team on the incidence of central-line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Overall CLABSI ...