Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections

This resource from Comagine Health is intended for patients and residents to help educate them about catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) and how they can be both identified and prevented.

More than 560,000 patients develop CAUTI each year, leading to extended hospital stays, increased health care costs, and patient morbidity and mortality. RNs can play a major role in reducing CAUTI rates to save lives and prevent harm, and this streamlined clinical tool from the American Nurses Association can help.

This webinar provides an overview of the different types of urinary tract infections (UTIs), including risk factors, symptoms, diagnosis and treatment options.

This recorded webinar provides an overview of possible adverse events associated with urinary and central venous catheters, facility guidelines on catheter usage and common fallacies around catheter usage.

These guidelines in "Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology" highlight practical recommendations in a concise format to assist physicians, nurses, and infection preventionists at acute-care hospitals in implementing and prioritizing their catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) prevention efforts.

This recorded presentation from infection control staff at the University of Texas Medical Branch reviews practices and strategies for reducing the number of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) events in hospitals.

Hospital staff can utilize this tool to capture daily usage for each patient with an indwelling Foley catheter and monitor for proper indications. Foleys that no longer have an indication or are not medically necessary should be promptly removed to decrease risk of infection.

This learning module will educate viewers on identifying cathether-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) events using the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) definitions and understanding reporting requirements.

Hospital-acquired indwelling urinary catheter and central line infections hurt thousands of patients every year and cost health care organizations millions of dollars. This presentation will provide insight for conducting a self-assessment regarding organizational practice of evidence-based CAUTI/CLABSI Prevention Bundles to identify opportunities for improvement.

This tool, prepared by Alliant Health Solutions, a Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor (HQIC), provides evidence-based best practices and resources to create quality improvement action plans for catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) prevention.

This tool, prepared by Alliant Health Solutions, a Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor (HQIC), is used to assess the difference between catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) prevention actual practice and expected performance. It is important to assess practice through observation and audit rather than relying on if a policy is in place, as practice can vary from policy.

This guide, provided by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), can be used to identify the senior executive with the greatest potential for leading a catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) quality improvement project to achieve and sustain success.

This spreadsheet was created to help hospitals monitor their use of Foley catheterization, in an effort to reduce the incidence of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs).

View presentations from the 2022 annual National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) live training on how to identify, report, and analyze VAE, PedVAE, CAUTI, CLABSI, Secondary Bloodstream Infection (BSI) and Site-Specific Infections, SSI, MRSA Bacteremia and C. difficile LabID events, as well as presentations on validation of healthcare-associated infection data, and reporting and analysis of antibiotic use and resistance data.

This tool from UroToday translates health care-associated urinary tract infection prevention into practice with this ABCDE bladder bundle.

This bundle tool from the Minnesota Hospital Association is a collection of resources to assist hospitals in preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infections

Hospitals can use this Tracer Tool to survey and evaluate their processes for catheter-associated urinary tract infections, with the goal of providing safe, high-quality patient care.

The Process Improvement Discovery Tool help hospitals provide safer patient care by identifying process improvement opportunities for catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI).

This CAUTI Facility Assessment Tool, a component of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Targeted Assessment for Prevention Strategy, helps organizations identify gaps and target prevention.

This Spanish version of a recorded webinar provides an overview of possible adverse events associated with urinary and central venous catheters, facility guidelines on catheter usage and common fallacies around catheter usage.

This learning module will educate viewers on identifying cathether-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) events using the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) definitions and understanding reporting requirements.