As part of its ongoing efforts to make health care safer, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) today released a new toolkit to help hospitals prevent catheter-associated urinary tract ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An expert at SHEA suggested using catheter-associated bacteria as a metric for measuring hospital safety instead ...

JUPITER, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Results of a national survey of infection control experts highlight the shortcomings of the widely used Foley urinary catheter. The new findings may help explain why ...

Prevention guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement could help decrease the incidence of catheter-associated urinary tract infection, ...

Healthcare teams that participated in the On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI project learned seven important lessons about reducing catheter-associated urinary tract infections, according to a report by the ...