Decatur Memorial Hospital Significantly Reduces Hospital Acquired Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections
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Speaker: Stacey Taylor, MSN, RN
The session will include an overview of a successful PDCA project to reduce CAUTI rates led by the hospitals nursing council. Tools used to understand root causes included 5 Why Analysis and a Driver Diagram. Best practice interventions supported by literature and how they were successfully implemented and sustained will be shared. After interventions, the average CAUTI Standard Infection Ratio (SIR) decreased from 1.10 to 0.18 with 0 CAUTIS in 12 out the 13 months post intervention.