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Cauti: Are We Testing Appropriately?, Christoph Lecznar
Cauti: Are We Testing Appropriately?, Christoph Lecznar
VCU Health Nursing
Purpose: The purpose of this evidence-based quality improvement project was to decrease catheter associated urinary tract infections in a 28 bed Surgical Trauma Intensive Care Unit in a Level One Trauma Academic Medical Center.
Background: Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) are deemed never events by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 17-69% of CAUTIs are preventable. Current recommendations for CAUTI reduction include: Education strategies, chlorhexidine gluconate bathing and catheter care, catheter avoidance, policies for insertion, and urine culture testing stewardship. Our unit experienced an increase in CAUTI incidence in May and …