Background: The Joint Commission’s Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP)-9 recommended removing indwelling urinary catheters (IUC) before postoperative day 2 to decrease urinary infection (UTI) risk. Our center implemented a best practice alert (BPA) in the electronic health record to enforce SCIP-9 with near-100% compliance.  We sought to study the effect of the BPA on catheter [...]

Background: Indwelling urinary catheters (IDUCs) are commonplace in hospital medicine wards, facilitating patient care but introducing risks such as catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). The urgency to minimize these complications has spurred initiatives to refine catheter utilization protocols. This study examines the efficacy of the Foley Removal Countdown Strategy, a novel, proactive approach in the [...]