Study: Michigan Initiative Cuts Urinary Tract Infections 25%

Michigan hospitals decreased catheter-associated urinary tract infections by 25 percent from 2007 to 2009 by using an infection prevention bundle called the Bladder Bundle Initiative, according to a study in JAMA Internal Medicine.

In 2009, researchers surveyed 470 infection preventionists at a sample of U.S. hospitals including all Michigan hospitals, which launched the Keystone Bladder Bundle Initiative in 2007 to prevent CAUTIs.

Click here to read the full story on CAUTI reduction in Becker's ASC Review.

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