Preventing 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.
American journal of infection control. 2015 Sep 25 [Epub ahead of print]
Dorinne Gray, Richard Nussle, Abner Cruz, Gail Kane, Michael Toomey, Curtis Bay, Gholamabbas Amin Ostovar
Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, AZ. A. T. Still University, Mesa, AZ. , Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, AZ. , Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, AZ. , Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, AZ. , Department of Biostatistics, A. T. Still University, Mesa, AZ. , Department of Infection Prevention and Control, Maricopa Integrated Health System, Phoenix, AZ.