ORLANDO — Staff at a children’s hospital in Virginia collaborated to go almost a year without a central line-associated bloodstream infection, researchers reported.

Inova L.J. Murphy Children's Hospital eliminated central line-associated bloodstream infections among its patients for 300 days with a multidisciplinary team.

Meticulous focus on central line removal, proper line maintenance, and daily device rounding by the multi-disciplinary team, as well as better patient education on oral, personal, and hand hygiene ...