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Prevent Central Line Infections
… by implementing a series of interdependent, scientifically grounded steps.

The “central line bundle” has five components:

• hand hygiene,
• maximal barrier precautions,
• chlorhexidine skin antisepsis,
• appropriate catheter site and administration system care,
• and no routine replacement.

The power of a “bundle” is that it brings together those scientifically grounded concepts that are both necessary and sufficient to improve the clinical outcome of interest. The focus of measurement is the completion of the entire bundle as a single intervention, rather than completion of its individual components.

Resources to get you started

• One-page summary
• How-to Guide
• Presentation with Facilitator Notes
• Annotated Bibliography
• Recording of the March 30 Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection/Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Informational Call

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References
¹Berwick, Donald, Presentation to the Association of Health Care Journalists, AHCJ Sixth National Conference: A Discussion with Donald Berwick, 4/2/05. Transcript provided by kaisernetwork.org, a free service of the Kaiser Family Foundation.