A nurse taskforce at Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, N.Y., found the catheter-associated urinary tract infections bundle they implemented has successfully reduced infection rates. The ...

Implementation of the CAUTI prevention bundle was associated with a 50 percent reduction in the mean monthly CAUTI rate, that is, from 5.41 to 2.49 per 1,000 catheter-days.

The researchers observed a 50 percent reduction in the mean monthly CAUTI rate from 5.41 to 2.49 per 1,000 catheter-days (95 percent confidence interval, −1.28 to −0.12; P = 0.02) following ...