We’ve had a lot of discussions on this Blog about metrics and best practices. Because they’re very important. Whenever I talk to colleagues who haven’t adopted a policy of best practices, they assume that A) It’s very difficult to identify best practices that will have a big impact and B) Putting these best practices in place will require tremendous effort. While I can’t deny that this can sometimes be true, a lot of best practices are a lot easier to deal with. That includes practices that can save huge amounts of money and even save lives. To demonstrate this, today we are going to look at best practices in health care. Specifically, we are going to look at the growing number of Central Line Infections that occur in hospitals.