TY - JOUR
T1 - Device Utilization Ratios in Infection Prevention
T2 - Process or Outcome Measure?
AU - Abrantes-Figueiredo, Jessica I.
AU - Ross, Jack W.
AU - Banach, David B.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2018/5/1
Y1 - 2018/5/1
N2 - Purpose of Review: The purpose of this review is to describe the role of device utilization as a component of surveillance for healthcare-associated infections and describe its potential role as a measurement of healthcare quality. Recent Findings: Device utilization, while primarily a process-based measure in the prevention of device-associated infections can also serve as an important outcome in the evaluation of an infection prevention program. Summary: Device utilization can be an important and resource-efficient measurement when coupled with measurements of risk-adjusted infection rates. The measurement of the device utilization ratio can provide insight into the risk of device-associated harms, including non-infectious harms, which would not be captured with currently used infection-based surveillance metrics. Further study and validation of standardized, risk-adjusted device utilization measurements is an important area for future exploration.
AB - Purpose of Review: The purpose of this review is to describe the role of device utilization as a component of surveillance for healthcare-associated infections and describe its potential role as a measurement of healthcare quality. Recent Findings: Device utilization, while primarily a process-based measure in the prevention of device-associated infections can also serve as an important outcome in the evaluation of an infection prevention program. Summary: Device utilization can be an important and resource-efficient measurement when coupled with measurements of risk-adjusted infection rates. The measurement of the device utilization ratio can provide insight into the risk of device-associated harms, including non-infectious harms, which would not be captured with currently used infection-based surveillance metrics. Further study and validation of standardized, risk-adjusted device utilization measurements is an important area for future exploration.
KW - Catheter-associated urinary tract infection
KW - Device utilization
KW - Quality measurements
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85044386262
U2 - 10.1007/s11908-018-0616-y
DO - 10.1007/s11908-018-0616-y
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85044386262
SN - 1523-3847
VL - 20
JO - Current Infectious Disease Reports
JF - Current Infectious Disease Reports
IS - 5
M1 - 8
ER -