Summary
This customisable, educational toolkit published by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) aims to help ICUs reduce rates of central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI).
The materials can be used to assess current safety practice, implement new approaches and overcome particular challenges related to CLABSI and CAUTI in ICUs.
Content
Tools include:
Assessment
- ICU assessment
- ICE assessment response guide
- Action plan template
Implementing
- CUSP onboarding modules, laying a foundation to implement a program of preventing CLABSI and CAUTI
- CLABSI and CAUTI prevention modules, providing an introduction to the tiered interventions
- Playbook for preventing CLABSI and CAUTI in the ICU setting: connecting the dots between CUSP and the tiered interventions
- CLABSI and CAUTI learning tools
- APIC HAIs calculator tools
Overcoming common challenges
- Team engagement tools
- Team functioning tools
- Overcoming clinical mindset tools
- Safety culture tools
AHRQ - Toolkit for preventing CLABSI and CAUTI in ICUs (4 April 2022)
https://www.ahrq.gov/hai/tools/clabsi-cauti-icu/index.html
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