Training materials for sales force to learn CAUTI and CAUTI infection prevention.

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INFECTION CONTROL AND CAUTI PREVENTION – MUST READ ARTICLES
1. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology. (2014, April). APIC Implementation Guides. (A. f.
(AHRQ), Ed.) Retrieved September 6, 2014, from Guide to Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections:
http://apic.org/Resource_/EliminationGuideForm/0ff6ae59-0a3a-4640-97b5-eee38b8bed5b/File/CAUTI_06.pdf
This is the most recent guide to preventing CAUTI from Association for Professionals in Infection Control (APIC)
and contains must-know information. This guide is your Bible. It provides MUST KNOW information, if you are
going to be perceived as a credible CAUTI consultant:
 Epidemiology and pathogenesis of CAUTI
 National CAUTI prevention initiatives
 CAUTI risk assessment techniques for hospitals
 CAUTI definitions, surveillance, and reporting
 Patient safety, CUSP, and other behavioral models
 CAUTI prevention
 CAUTI prevention in children and special population
In addition to the above, you need to be an expert on trauma relevant to CAUTI.
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2. Are you prepared to identify and prevent the three infections that make up two-thirds of all Healthcare
Associated Infections? American Sentinel University, July 2014. www.americansentinel.edu.
Performance Improvement (PI) Departments and CAUTI teams are highly focused on reducing CAUTI, CLAPSI, and
VAP. You need a working knowledge of these initiatives and how DirectVision fists into their world. Your deliverable
is to demonstrate that DirectVision easily integrates into what they are doing.
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HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED CONDITIONS (HAC) PROGRAM
3. The Advisory Board. (2012, May 29). Field Guide to Payment Innovation. Retrieved September 6, 2014, from
http://www.advisory.com/~/media/Advisory-com/Research/HCAB/Resources/2012/Posters/Payment-
models/The-Field-Guide-to-Payment-Innovation-Full.jpg
Great overview of Medicare Payment Innovation. FOCUS YOUR ATTENTION ON THE MIDDLE ROW: The New Normal
for Fee-for-Service. It describes the Hospital Value Based Purchasing Program, the Hospital Readmissions Reduction
Program, and the Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Program. Currently, CAUTI comprises 32% of a hospital's HAC
score, so know that program well. All of these programs have incentives and disincentives/penalties. Although you
are concerned about the CATUI component and its associated penalty, their world is larger. They are concerned
about all these programs.
The bottom line: the hospital has limited dollars and resources and they will pick and choose their solutions. Your
deliverable is to convince them that our solution needs to be part of their solution as a matter of urgency.
4. STRATIS HEALTH. (2014, March). Understanding the Hospital-Acquired Condition (HAC) Program . Retrieved from
http://www.stratishealth.org/documents/HAC_fact_sheet.pdf

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Great overview of the Hospital-Acquired Program - know this well!
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
NATIONAL QUALITY FORUM - SAFE PRACTICES FOR BETTER HEALTHCARE
5. National Quality Forum. (2010, April). Safe Practices for Better Healthcare - 2010 Update. Retrieved September
6, 2014, from
http://www.qualityforum.org/Publications/2010/04/Safe_Practices_for_Better_Healthcare_%E2%80%93_2010_
Update.aspx
Focus your attention on Chapter 25 - CAUTI PREVENTION
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JOINT COMMISSION HOSPITAL NATIONAL PATIENT SAFETY GOALS (NPSG) -
6. The Joint Commission. (2013). Hospital National Patient Safety Goals. Retrieved September 6, 2014, from
http://www.jointcommission.org/assets/1/6/HAP_NPSG_Chapter_2014.pdf
SEE NPSG 07.06.01 - implementation of evidence-based practices to prevent CAUTI
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7. HAI PROGRESS REPORT
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2014, March). Healthcare-associated Infections (HAI)
Progress Report. Retrieved SEPTEMBER 6, 2014, from http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/pdfs/progress-report/hai-
progress-report.pdf
This important report from the CDC shows that most HAIs are decreasing. CAUTI rates are increasing. It gives a state-
by-state summary of infection rates.
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INFECTION CONTROL AND CAUTI – ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
8. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2012, May 17). Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection
(CAUTI) Toolkit. (M. M. Carolyn Gould, Ed.) Retrieved September 6, 2014, from
http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/pdfs/toolkits/CAUTItoolkit_3_10.pdf
See also Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2014). Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections
(CAUTI). Retrieved September 6, 2014, from http://www.cdc.gov/HAI/ca_uti/uti.html
See also Centers for Disease Control. (2014, January). Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Event.
Retrieved September 6, 2014, from http://apic.org/Resource_/EliminationGuideForm/0ff6ae59-0a3a-4640-
97b5-eee38b8bed5b/File/CAUTI_06.pdf
Detailed description of CAUTI, surveillance, symptomatic and asymptomatic UTIs, calculation of Standardized
Infection Ratios.

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9. HEALTH RESEARCH & EDUCATIONAL TRUST (HRET) in partnership with American Hospital Association. (2013,
July). Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence (HPOE) - Eliminating CAUTI. Retrieved September 6, 2014, from Hospitals
in Pursuit of Excellence: http://www.hpoe.org/resources/hpoehretaha-guides/1420
CAUTI prevention guide for hospitals from the Health Research and Educational Trust. Emphasizes tools from
the CUSP program (Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program)
10. Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). (2009). Guideline for Prevention of
Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections 2009. Retrieved September 6, 2014, from
http://www.cdc.gov/hicpac/pdf/cauti/cautiguideline2009final.pdf
Excellent CAUTI prevention guidelines.