Connecticut hospitals are doing a better job reducing the number of healthcare-associated infections in their facilities, compared to hospitals nationally, according to a recently released report by the Connecticut Department of Public Health (DPH).
The report said that Connecticut’s hospitals in aggregate are doing “better than expected,” when it comes to controlling blood stream-related infections from a central line.
The measurement is based on a national risk-adjusted standard infection rate used by the Centers for Disease Control to compare states, hospitals, and individual units to each other and to the national index.Â
The DPH data offer a snapshot of hospital performance from October 2009 through September 2010.
