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 ...

While implementing CAUTI reduction programs can be challenging, certain strategies can overcome these barriers, according to a report in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. At the Becker's ...

The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology has issued a new, updated edition of its Guide to Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections. The new guide expands ...

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 ...

The CatheterOut website offers two free toolkits for implementing a program to reduce catheter use and catheter-associated urinary tract infections. Researchers from University of Michigan in Ann ...