Overview:

Urinary catheters are a major contributor to hospital acquired urinary tract infections. Shortening the duration of catheter use can reduce the risk of costly infections.

Participating hospitals will reduce their baseline for hospital acquired catheter associated urinary tract infection rate by a minimum of 30%. . Individual improvement goals will be determined by each facility and may vary.

Hospitals will submit data on a quarterly basis for initiatives. When possible, hospitals will provide historical data from 2008. Improvement will be determined by a trend line. The slope of the line from the baseline until the end of the data collection period will be used to determine if the improvement goal was successfully obtained.

Data will be supplied by Hospital Infection Preventionist using NHSN definitions

Baseline:
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) rate of 20% >4 days
NHSN 2006 data rate 4.4 and 3.4 in Combined ICU non-teaching and teaching respectively, 3.7 combined M/S unit

Measurement Plan - definitions, dates of data submission, ICD-9 codes,  initiative baseline and goal information.

Catheter-Associated UTI (CA-UTI) Mentor Contact
Mentor Hospital: ValleyCare Health System
Mentor Contact Name: Bernie Revak
Mentor Contact Email: brevak@valleycare.com