A seven-year institutional commitment to catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) risk mitigation was associated with a sustained reduction from baseline in indwelling urinary catheter (IUC) utilization, CAUTI events below 1 per 1000 IUC days, and annual CAUTI Standardized Infection Ratios below national benchmarking standards. Multidisciplinary data-driven assessments of IUC utilization and CAUTI events prompted a series of targeted, feasible, and pragmatic multi-component interventions.
American journal of infection control. 2026 Jan 20 [Epub ahead of print]
Karina Albuquerque, Josy Lamour, Tessy Joseph, Luz Munoz, Joan M Curcio, Linda M Mundy
Infection Prevention and Control Department, New York City Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, Elmhurst, NY. Electronic address: ., Infection Prevention and Control Department, New York City Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, Elmhurst, NY., Infection Prevention and Control Department, New York City Health + Hospitals/Elmhurst, Elmhurst, NY; Department of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY, NY.