Mayo Clinic Reduces Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections Through a Bundled 6-C Approach

The urinary catheter maintenance bundle was implemented after urinary catheter usage had been reduced to optimum levels for the patient population. The addition of this bundle reduced CAUTI by 70%. Some of this reduction was related to a definition change implemented in January 2015, which eliminated urine cultures with Candida from the CAUTI definition, but the decreases in CAUTI rates began before this definition change, and the definition change does not account for the entire reduction.