Maximus - Standards and Guidelines


	Standards and Guidelines

	The following links provide helpful information on infection prevention, maintaining a safe workplace, and patient safety:
	Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)
	Association for Vascular Access - Save That Line! (AVA)
	Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths (RID)
	Infection Control Today
	MRSA Resources
	Pennsylvania Healthcare Cost Containment Council - Hospital-acquired Infections In Pennsylvania
	Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)
	Stop Hospital Infections.org

	CDC Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings
	CDC Guideline for Environmental Infection Control in Health-Care Facilities
	CDC Guidelines for the Prevention of Intravascular Catheter-Related Infections
	Institute for Healthcare Improvement
	5million Lives Campaign

	JCAHO Patient Safety Goals
	Joint Commission International Center For Patient Safety-Speak Up!
	Leapfrog Group for Patient Safety
	Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act (1970)
	OSHA Standards for Healthcare Facilities
	OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens and Needlestick Prevention

New FDA Requirements

Reducing the Risk

Standards and Guidelines

The MaxPlus Needleless Connector

The MaxPlus is the fastest growing needleless connector on the market today. As evidence to its success the MaxPlus is being utilized in a number of facilities who in 2006 were awarded Honor Roll status by the U.S. News and World Report as 'America's Best Hospitals." The nation's top facilities are using the MaxPlus for two main reasons; it significantly lowers Catheter Related Blood Stream infections CRBSIs and catheter line occlusions. Reducing these two complications improves patient outcomes.

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