{"id":685,"date":"2012-01-27T15:42:16","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T15:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=685"},"modified":"2013-01-22T18:06:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T18:06:46","slug":"dangerous-infections-are-more-likely-in-pediatric-intensive-care-units","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous infections are more likely in pediatric intensive-care units"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But hospitals and parents can take steps to prevent them, our investigation found.\u00a0 Having a child in intensive care is scary enough without the added worry of deadly hospital-acquired infections. But such infections occur all too often in U.S. hospitals, especially in pediatric intensive-care units, according to an investigation by the Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center. We found that pediatric ICUs often have higher infection rates than adult ICUs, and that some do much better than others at preventing infections.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/cro\/health\/pediatric-intensive-care.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But hospitals and parents can take steps to prevent them, our investigation found.\u00a0 Having a child in intensive care is scary enough without the added worry of deadly hospital-acquired infections. <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=685\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,59],"tags":[121,124,123,120,119,122,57],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-how-to-for-patients","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-central-line-catheters","tag-central-lines","tag-hai","tag-hospital-acquired-infections","tag-pediatric-icu","tag-pediatric-intensive-care-units","tag-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}