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Central Line Insertion Care Team Checklist
Checklist developed by Johns Hopkins Medicine that provides critical steps to reduce HAIs.

Ending Healthcare-Associated Infections
Fact sheet that provides an overview of CUSP and highlights AHRQ-supported projects that use the program. 

• CUSP Toolkit. The CUSP toolkit includes training tools to make care safer by improving the foundation of how your physicians, nurses, and other clinical team members work together.  
• Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative—Final Report on the National On the CUSP: Stop BSI Project. Final report, dated October 2012, discusses the implementation, impact, results, and lessons learned from On the CUSP: Stop BSI Project, the AHRQ-funded national effort to prevent central-line-associated bloodstream infections in U.S. hospitals.  
• A Companion Guide to the National On the CUSP: Stop BSI Project Final Report. This companion guide provides supporting documentation for the final report.
• Eliminating CLABSI, A National Patient Safety Imperative—A Progress Report on the National On the CUSP: Stop BSI Project, Neonatal CLABSI Prevention. Progress report, dated October 2012, discusses accomplishments and next steps to in the neonatal central line-associated bloodstream infection reduction project.
• Tools for Reducing Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infections. Tools to help your unit implement evidence-based practices and eliminate central line-associated blood stream infections.

. Web site that offers toolkits and information on enrolling in the project to eliminate central line-associated blood stream infections and catheter-associated urinary tract infections using a CUSP:

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. Web site that features toolkits to eliminate catheter-related blood stream infections using a CUSP.

• Central Line-Associated Blood Stream Infection Opportunity Estimator.
• Tool that estimates the yearly number of deaths, dollars, and days attributable to central line-associated blood stream infections within an ICU.