Bringing hospital infections down to zero

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Maryland hospital safety experts are looking at a new standard for many preventive infections and mishaps that can harm the most vulnerable patients: zero. “Zero is the answer. It’s been a tremendous cultural change in this state,” said Dr. Bill Minogue, director of the Maryland Patient Safety Center. “We’ve almost eliminated central line [IV] infections in the state. It’s been zero in many hospitals for many, many months.” Many of those infections, Minogue said, involved drug-resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, bacteria.