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CDC joins 100,000 Lives Campaign
Quality Improvement Monitor, June 9, 2005
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced June 2 that it has joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) in a campaign to use evidence-based techniques to save 100,000 lives by June 14, 2006.
The 100,000 Lives Campaign aims to enlist more than 1,600 U.S. hospitals to save 100,000 lives through patient safety.
The CDC will provide expertise in preventing healthcare-associated infections to the hospitals taking part in the campaign, according to an agency press release. The CDC will assist in collecting information about hospital progress in the six campaign intervention areas, which include prevention of surgical site infections and severe adverse drug events.
"CDC is happy to join IHI in this effort to get hospitals across the nation to increase their use of scientifically proven strategies to improve the safety of healthcare," Denise Cardo, MD, director of the CDC's Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, said in a statement.
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