NQF guide will help hospitals tackle bloodstream infections

The National Quality Forum released a guide to help organizational leaders and clinical care teams in acute care settings implement or improve hospital-onset bacteremia and fungemia prevention, identification and treatment initiatives. The release arrives as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is refining a recently endorsed quality measure on hospital-onset bacteremia prevention. The NQF will discuss the guide during a webinar on Oct. 31 at 3:00 p.m. ET. Participants should register in advance. Hospital-onset bacterium is any bloodstream infection where bacterial or fungal pathogens are detected from a blood culture specimen collected on day four or later of a hospital admission. (NQF news release, 9/30/24)