Checklist cuts lethal ventilator-associated lung infections
Friday, February 18, 2011 - 13:30
in Health & Medicine
Cases of ventilator-associated pneumonia - the most lethal and among the most common of all hospital-associated infections - dropped by more than 70 percent in Michigan hospitals where medical staff used a simple checklist designed by Johns Hopkins researchers. Such pneumonias kill an estimated 36,000 Americans each year...