A state requirement of central line-associated bloodstream infection reporting was not associated with lower CLABSI rates compared with rates for states without a reporting requirement, according to a study in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology.
Researchers compared two types of CLABSI rates: those from hospitals required by the state to report the infections and those from hospitals without such a requirement. In addition, researchers analyzed whether legislation that had three legal requirements — data submission, reporting of data to the public and inclusion of facility identifiers in public reports — was associated with lower CLABSI rates than legislation without these requirements.
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An analysis of 159 hospitals revealed no effect of state legislation on the CLABSI standardized infection ratio and no significant differences among the legislation groups.
The researchers suggested that other CLABSI prevention efforts may weaken the effect of state legislation.
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