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ANA CAUTI Prevention Tool.

April 8, 2015

Silver Spring, MD: American Nurses Association; 2015.

Nurses play an important role in reducing catheter–associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). This toolkit, developed as a Partnership for Patients strategy, focuses on promoting nursing behaviors to prevent CAUTIs including decreasing catheter use and improving catheter maintenance.

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