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Am J Infect Control · Jan 2016
Effects of a catheter-associated urinary tract infection prevention campaign on infection rate, catheter utilization, and health care workers' perspective at a community safety net hospital.
- Dorinne Gray, Richard Nussle, Abner Cruz, Gail Kane, Michael Toomey, Curtis Bay, and Gholamabbas Amin Ostovar.
- Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, AZ. Electronic address: dorinne.gray@mihs.org.
- Am J Infect Control. 2016 Jan 1; 44 (1): 115-6.
AbstractPreventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections is in the forefront of health care quality. However, nurse and physician engagement is a common barrier in infection prevention efforts. After implementation of a multidisciplinary catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) prevention campaign, we studied the impact of our campaign and showed its association with reducing the CAUTI rate and catheter utilization and the positive effect on health care workers' engagement and perspectives. CAUTI prevention campaigns can lead to lower infection rates and change health care workers' perspective. Copyright © 2016 Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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