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Volume 12: Issue 3
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11–13
Publication Date:
01 Mar 2020
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05 Mar 2020
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    Strategies for the prevention of bloodstream infections in patients receiving hemodialysis

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    Access-related bloodstream infection rates before and after intervention in 17 hemodialysis facilities participating in the CDC Dialysis Bloodstream Infection Prevention Collaborative

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    Example of the Electronic Chairside Checklist 2020, which is in development by the Nephrologists Transforming Dialysis Safety (NTDS) Vascular Access Workgroup of the American Society of Nephrology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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    Example of the patient education tools embedded in the Electronic Chairside Checklist. These include videos produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In development by the Nephrologists Transforming Dialysis Safety (NTDS) Vascular Access Workgroup of the American Society of Nephrology with the CDC.

Figure 1.

Strategies for the prevention of bloodstream infections in patients receiving hemodialysis
Figure 2.

Access-related bloodstream infection rates before and after intervention in 17 hemodialysis facilities participating in the CDC Dialysis Bloodstream Infection Prevention Collaborative
Figure 3.

Example of the Electronic Chairside Checklist 2020, which is in development by the Nephrologists Transforming Dialysis Safety (NTDS) Vascular Access Workgroup of the American Society of Nephrology and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Figure 4.

Example of the patient education tools embedded in the Electronic Chairside Checklist. These include videos produced by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In development by the Nephrologists Transforming Dialysis Safety (NTDS) Vascular Access Workgroup of the American Society of Nephrology with the CDC.
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Preventing Bloodstream Infections in Hemodialysis Patients

Michele H. Mokrzycki Michele H. Mokrzycki, MD, FASN, is chair of the vascular access committee, Nephrologists Transforming Dialysis Safety Initiative of the American Society of Nephrology, and a professor of medicine at the Montefiore Einstein College of Medicine.

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