Top 10 infection control stories, May 4-8

An outbreak of the plague, Leapfrog hospital safety scores and how two health systems reduced MRSA infections piqued the interest of infection control and clinical quality readers last week.

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The following are the 10 most-read infection control and clinical quality articles from Becker’s Hospital Review for the week of May 4, starting with the most popular.

1. Where are the 20 Leapfrog ‘F’ hospitals?

2. Pit bull infects 4 with the plague in Colorado: 5 things to know

3. How the VA, HCA dramatically reduced MRSA infections

4. Patient safety tool: Guide for catheter appropriateness

5. Kaiser Permanente, Intermountain to submit extra data for new US News hospital ranking

6. Long-term care hospital shutters due to safety concerns

7. Which states have the most Leapfrog ‘A’ hospitals?

8. How long can endoscopes be stored after reprocessing?

9. Flying right: Adapting aviation’s ‘sterile cockpit rule’ to improve patient safety in the OR

10. 50 statistics on state CLABSI rates

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