1. National APIC
Sue Hetticher, CIC
Coastline APIC
September 4, 2014

2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN): . Surveillance of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI)
. Kathy Allen –Bridson
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

8. The Major Issues Four issues seemed to have the most potential for effecting the quality / validity of the CAUTI data.

11. The Major Issues Four issues seemed to have the most potential for effecting the quality / validity of the CAUTI data.

13. The Major Issues Four issues seemed to have the most potential for effecting the quality / validity of the CAUTI data.

17. Revisions to UTI criteria for January 2015
(Identification of true negatives)
Revisions to UTI criteria for January 2015

18. Perfection is a Nice Goal…
Perfect Goal: Identify all true cases, exclude all false cases using few resources
Data
Resources
Specificity
Real Goal: Identify the majority of true cases, exclude the majority of false cases, using a reasonable amount of resources
Sensitivity

19. Questions?