Including senior leaders in CAUTI prevention is a critical aspect of the design and implementation of infection prevention programs. Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from the upcoming book Preventing ...

This is an excerpt from the HCPro book, Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections, Second Edition. A variety of teams exist in the healthcare environment, and many of them can offer ...

Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta cut its catheter-associated urinary tract infections in the pediatric intensive care unit to zero — and maintained a rate of zero for more than 500 days — with a new ...

Implementation of evidence-based prevention guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement could reduce the incidence of ...

North Country Healthcare is an alliance of three critical access hospitals and a home health and hospice agency serving the northernmost region of New Hampshire. Based on CDC studies, staff found that ...

A recent study published in Advanced Materials Interfaces presents a bio-based nanocomposite coating designed to reduce the risk of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) in commercial ...

A nationwide initiative to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections includes five main components, according to a report in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. The Agency for ...

Urinary catheters are required for nearly every surgical procedure. However, a major challenge for the health care industry is predicting who may develop catheter-associated urinary tract infections ...

As part of its ongoing efforts to make health care safer, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) today released a new toolkit to help hospitals prevent catheter-associated urinary tract ...

JUPITER, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Results of a national survey of infection control experts highlight the shortcomings of the widely used Foley urinary catheter. The new findings may help explain why ...

We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. PHILADELPHIA — A new type of female indwelling catheter ...

Patient Enrollment Begins in Exploratory Phase II Trial of NovaBay's Lead Aganocide Compound, NVC-422, in Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections EMERYVILLE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NovaBay ...