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CDC report shows Massachusetts improving on hospital infections

By Chelsea Conaboy

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 20, 2012

The 2010 rate of blood stream infections associated with use of a “central line,” a tube used to deliver medications and other fluids and take certain cardiovascular measurements, dropped in Massachusetts and 20 other states, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The national data also indicate that Massachusetts is not the only state to see a higher-than-expected rate of surgical infections among women who had a vaginal hysterectomy.

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