Journal
INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
Volume 42, Issue 12, Pages 1497-1499Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2020.1408
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- VA National Center for Patient Safety through the Ann Arbor Patient Safety Center of Inquiry
- VA Health Services Research and Development Research Career Scientist award [RCS 11-222]
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The study found that a quality improvement intervention successfully reduced urethral catheter use in the long term at a Veterans Affairs hospital, with continued decrease in utilization and unchanged appropriateness of use.
We assessed the long-term sustainability of a quality improvement intervention to reduce urethral catheter use at a Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital. During the 8 years after the initial intervention, point-prevalence surveillance showed that urethral catheter use continued to decrease (OR, 0.91; 95% CI, 0.86-0.97; P = .003) and that appropriateness of catheter use remained unchanged.
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