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Aiming For Zero: Creating A Culture Of Safety And Improving Cauti Outcomes In The Microsystem, Shiela Escobar
Aiming For Zero: Creating A Culture Of Safety And Improving Cauti Outcomes In The Microsystem, Shiela Escobar
Master's Projects and Capstones
Abstract
Problem: Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) remains the leading cause of hospital-acquired infection (HAI) despite being preventable. CAUTI increases the length of stay, morbidity, mortality, readmissions, and costs. There is also increasing antimicrobial resistance in pathogens causing CAUTI. Thus, reducing HAIs such as CAUTI should be a priority for every institution.
Context: The microsystem for this CAUTI quality improvement project is a 24-bed adult medical-telemetry unit in an acute care teaching hospital with excessive CAUTI. This project aims to improve the unit’s CAUTI standardized infection ratio (SIR) from a baseline of 2.54 to 1.75 by October 2020. A SIR …