CAUTI Articles

Environmental Infection | 12.20.21

Combating Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms (MDROs) through an Innovative Soft-Surface Based Intervention

Multidrug-resistant microbes (MDROs) are on the rise, infecting millions globally. Innovative strategies are needed to strengthen best practices and antibiotic...

HAIs: Types and Pathogens | 5.9.17

Take Aim at Surgical Site Infections

Why It Matters: Timely incision management can help reduce the human and economic costs of SSIs. Complications with incision healing lead...

Health Information Technology | 10.25.16

An Electronic Surveillance Tool for Catheter – Associated Urinary Tract Infection in Intensive Care Units

Traditional methods of surveillance of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are error-prone and resource-intensive. To resolve these issues, a highly...

Care Settings | 9.30.16

A Special – AHRQ Safety Program for Long-Term Care: CAUTI Supplement

The Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET) is very pleased that the winter supplement of Prevention Strategist is focusing on the...

HAIs: Types and Pathogens | 9.30.16

A Family-Centered Care Model to Reduce Pediatric CAUTI

When the staff of Akron Children’s Hospital in Akron, Ohio, decided to implement a catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) prevention...

HAIs: Types and Pathogens | 9.30.16

Stop Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) in Critically Ill Patients

What the science and evidence show:

CAUTI is a serious patient safety issue.

Complications associated with CAUTI result in increased length of...

HAIs: Types and Pathogens | 9.30.16

A Special: On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI Supplement

THE NATIONAL – On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI project is proud to take part in this special supplement to Prevention...

HAIs: Types and Pathogens | 9.30.16

Plastic Rounds Innovation Reduces CLABSI and CAUTI

One of APIC’s 2015 Heroes of Infection Prevention, Carol Vance, BSN, RN, CIC, an infection prevention specialist at Barnes Jewish...