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Hospira TheraDoc Infection Control Assistant Documents Interventions to Help Hospital Reduce Catheter-Related Infections
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 1st, 2010
Hospira, Inc. (NYSE: HSP), a leading provider of clinical information and medication delivery technologies, announced a study showing how the TheraDoc™ clinical surveillance system helped clinicians at Memorial Hospital Miramar reduce catheter-related infections, which correlated with an increase in infection-control interventions. The hospital, which used TheraDoc to electronically track the number of interventions and catheters removed, as well as infection rates, is reporting the results in a poster presentation at the 2010 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) annual conference in New Orleans July 11-15.
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