Hospitals in the U.S. continue to make progress in the fight against central line-associated bloodstream infections and some surgical site infections, but struggled to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) between 2010 and 2011, according to a new report issued by the…
Nurse burnout and staffing woes lead to higher healthcare-associated infection rates (HAIs) and costs hospitals millions of additional dollars annually, according to a study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the…
Buried in a relatively mundane update of the nationwide success in preventing central line associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), there is an implicit bombshell of a question for infection preventionists: Does the CUSP (Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program) strategy widely advocated by the Agency…
The Joint Commission’s new National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) on preventing indwelling catheter-associated urinary tract infections — which emphasizes prompt removal of unnecessary devices and surveillance for CAUTIs — is effective January 1, 2012 for hospitals. Though there has been…
The Joint Commission’s new National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) on preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections – which emphasizes prompt removal of unnecessary devices and surveillance as warranted for CAUTIs — is effective January 1, 2012 for hospitals and critical access hospitals. According…
UTIs have been termed the Rodney Dangerfield of infections, out of a skewed perception that they are easy to treat and have relatively little clinical consequence. The conventional wisdom is that UTIs rarely lead to serious or fatal infections, but…