Taha Haytham, Raji Salama J, Khallaf Abeer, Abu Hija Seham, Mathew Raji, Rashed Hanan, Du Plessis Christelle, Allie Zaytoen, Ellahham Samer
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, United Arab Emirates.
BMJ Qual Improv Rep. 2017 Apr 6;6(1). doi: 10.1136/bmjquality.u209593.w7966. eCollection 2017.
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC) in Abu Dhabi is the main tertiary care referral hospital in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) with 560 bed capacity with a high occupancy rate. SKMC senior management has made a commitment to make quality and patient safety a top priority. Preventing health care associated infections, including Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI), is a high priority for our hospital. In order to improve CAUTI rates a multidisciplinary task force team was formed and led this performance improvement project. The purpose of this publication is to indicate the quality improvement interventions implemented to reduce CAUTI rates and the outcome of those interventions. We chose to conduct the pilot study in General Medicine as it is the busiest department in the hospital, with an average of 390 patients admitted per month during the study period. The study period was from March 2015 till April 2016. Our aim was to reduce CAUTI rates per 1000 device days in the medical units. Implemented interventions resulted in a reduction of CAUTI from 6.8 per 1000 device days in March 2015 to zero CAUTI in February through April 2016.
位于阿布扎比的谢赫·哈利法医疗城（SKMC）是阿拉伯联合酋长国（UAE）的主要三级医疗转诊医院，拥有560张床位，入住率很高。SKMC的高级管理层已承诺将质量和患者安全作为首要任务。预防包括导尿管相关尿路感染（CAUTI）在内的医疗保健相关感染是我们医院的高度优先事项。为了提高CAUTI率，成立了一个多学科特别工作组，并领导了这个绩效改进项目。本出版物的目的是说明为降低CAUTI率而实施的质量改进干预措施以及这些干预措施的结果。我们选择在普通内科进行试点研究，因为它是医院最繁忙的科室，在研究期间平均每月收治390名患者。研究期从2015年3月至2016年4月。我们的目标是降低医疗单位每1000个器械日的CAUTI率。实施的干预措施使CAUTI率从2015年3月的每1000个器械日6.8例降至2016年2月至4月的零例。
