For years, the long-term care industry has been locked in a high-stakes battle against Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs). We have refined our insertion techniques, tightened our ...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infections are a common pediatric healthcare-associated infection, but implementation of a prevention bundle can significantly reduce CAUTI rates in children, ...

A nurse taskforce at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., found the catheter-associated urinary tract infections bundle they implemented has successfully reduced infection rates. The ...

UPMC Williamsport used a bundled approach to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections. A Pennsylvania hospital's quality improvement initiative led to a rapid turnaround in ...

In 2008, as part of an aggressive effort to reduce the rate of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) declared it would no longer cover the extra ...

Michigan hospitals, which began an initiative to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections in 2007, reduced CAUTI rates significantly more than hospitals in other states, according to a ...

Can you contract an infection at the Hospital? Hospitals are generally disinfected thus reducing the chances of healthy individuals from contracting infections. However, should individuals at risk ...