Meeting
Abstract Number: 228
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
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 [...]
