NICE commissioned an external assessment centre (EAC) to review the evidence submitted by the company. This section summarises that review. Full details of all the evidence are in the project ...

Surgical teams at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, are decreasing the rate of urinary tract infection (UTI) in their institution by paying scrupulous attention to the use of catheters before ...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) can be significantly reduced using a new program, a new study has shown. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) national project, ...

"First, electronic alerts do result in fewer catheter-associated urinary tract infections. Second, the design of the alerts is very important. By making the alert quicker and easier to use, we saw a ...

Right now, about one in five hospital patients has a catheter collecting their urine -- and putting them at risk of a painful and potentially dangerous urinary tract infection, or UTI. New results ...

UTI urine sample. Implementing a urinary tract infection quality improvement program resulted in a decrease in UTI diagnoses in orthopedic patients. Implementing a urinary tract infection (UTI) ...

The patient expert and patient survey comments described UroShield as simple and easy to use. The patient expert reported several benefits from using UroShield in the past 3 years. These included a ...

CHICAGO: Surgical teams at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, are decreasing the rate of urinary tract infection (UTI) in their institution by paying scrupulous attention to the use of catheters ...