New York Times Op-Ed: “…Johns Hopkins University published a simple five-step checklist designed to prevent certain hospital infections. It reminds doctors to make sure, for example, that before putting large intravenous lines into patients, they actually wash their hands and don a sterile gown and gloves….The results were stunning. Within three months, the rate of bloodstream infections from these I.V. lines fell by two-thirds. The average I.C.U. cut its infection rate from 4 percent to zero. Over 18 months, the program saved more than 1,500 lives and nearly $200 million…Yet this past month, the Office for Human Research Protections shut the program down. [Atul Gawande, a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and a New Yorker staff writer.]