The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority recruited Pennsylvania long-term care (LTC) facilities to participate in a 14-month national catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) collaborative led by the Health Research & Educational Trust, an affiliate of the American Hospital Association, funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). High-level project goals were to develop and adapt evidence-based CAUTI elimination and safety practices for LTC facilities, to reduce CAUTI rates, and to improve safety culture through improved teamwork and communication in the LTC setting. In December 2015, 10 of the 15 LTC facilities completing the project participated in an online survey to assess whether the AHRQ tools designed for the national project were useful in meeting project goals. The survey results revealed that the project tools were valuable to the majority of respondents by improving CAUTI identification, process and outcome measurement, CAUTI case root-cause analysis, and CAUTI prevention and control measures.
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