A telehealth approach to central line-associated bloodstream infection prevention activities in nursing homes: the SAFER lines program
A mobile-app-based CLABSI prevention program decreased the frequency of inflamed/infected central line insertion sites, improved dressing integrity, increased speed of removal when inflammation/infection were found, and reduced infection-related hospitalization risk.
Authors
- Steven Tam
- Shruti K. Gohil (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1932-7540)
- Raheeb Saavedra
- Tom Tjoa
- Amarah Mauricio (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2131-4060)
- Raveena Singh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4262-3663)
- Shereen Nourollahi
- Jessica Bethlahmy
- Mohamad N. Alsharif
- Bardia Bahadori (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7314-2988)
- Isabel Y. Ashbaugh
- Justin Chang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8523-1937)
- Syma Rashid
Institutions
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- UC Irvine Health (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
- Published
- 2025-02-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2024.203
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Central Venous Catheters and Hemodialysis
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.52