Infection Control Today - Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIS)

AACN Updates Clinical Guidelines to Prevent CAUTIs

Urinary tract infections account for nearly 40 percent of hospital-acquired infections in acute care hospitals, triggering increased hospital costs and higher patient morbidity and mortality rates. Compounding the toll of these infections, Medicaid, Medicare and many other ...More

4 weeks ago

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Few Hospitals Aggressively Combat CAUTIs

Hospitals are working harder than ever to prevent healthcare-acquired infections, but a nationwide survey shows few are aggressively combating the most common one – catheter-associated urinary tract infections. In the survey by the University of Michigan Health System and ...More

December 8, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

New R3 Report From the Joint Commission Examines CAUTIs

An estimated 450,000 catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) occur annually in hospitals and represent the leading cause of health care-associated infection in hospitals. A new R3 Report from The Joint Commission provides hospitals with in-depth information ...More

September 28, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

Denominator Matters When Reporting CAUTIs, Researchers Say

Researchers who evaluated two different methods of measuring catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) rates in the setting of a quality improvement initiative aimed at reducing device utilization conclude that using device-days as a method of risk adjustment to ...More

July 26, 2011

Posted in News, Infections & Pathogens

Joint Commission Announces New 2012 National Patient Safety Goal for CAUTI

The Joint Commission has approved one new National Patient Safety Goal for 2012 that focuses on catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) for the hospital and critical access hospital accreditation programs. There are no new NPSGs for the other accreditation ...More

May 25, 2011

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Bringing Practice in Line With Published Guidelines Relating to CAUTI

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is one of the most common hospital-acquired infections. However, many cases treated as hospital-acquired CAUTI are actually asymptomatic bacteriuria (ABU). Evidence-based guidelines recommend that providers neither screen ...More

April 25, 2011

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Joint Commission Invites Comment on 2012 NPSGs

The Joint Commission is seeking input on two proposed 2012 National Patient Safety Goals (NPSGs) that address heathcare-associated infections (HAIs) -- specifically ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). The Joint ...More

December 14, 2010

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Elderly Women at Higher Risk for Unnecessary Urinary Catheterization, Study Says

Elderly women are at high risk for inappropriate urinary catheter utilization in emergency departments, according to a new study in the November issue of the American Journal of Infection Control. The study was conducted at St John Hospital and Medical Center, a 769-bed ...More

November 1, 2010

Posted in News

Iowa Sets HAI-Reduction Targets for the Coming Year

The Iowa Department of Public Health (IDPH) and the Iowa Healthcare Collaborative (IHC) are partnering with nearly 70 acute care Iowa hospitals to measure and reduce two preventable healthcare-associated infections over the next year. The HAI prevention targets include a 25 ...More

September 20, 2010

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Medical Center Cuts Catheterizations by 21 Percent With Foley Catheter Management System

Clinicians at Arkansas Methodist Medical Center (AMMC) are changing the way they assess and perform urinary catheter insertions -- and it's working. With the help of Medline Industries, Inc.'s ERASE CAUTI Foley catheter management system, which combines evidence-based ...More

September 16, 2010

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