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Nursing Care Quality Measures -
Percent of Long-Stay Residents With a Urinary Tract Infection
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This percentage addresses the ratio of long-stay residents who had an infection in their urinary tract at any time during the 30 days before their most recent assessment. Lower percentages are better.
Why is this important?
A urinary tract infection (UTI) is an infection in the urethra (the tube that passes urine from the bladder to the outside of the body) that, left untreated, can spread to the bladder (bladder infection), and kidney (kidney infection).
If the area where waste (urine and bowel movements) leaves the body is not kept clean, bacteria from the colon may multiply and enter the urethra, causing a UTI. A UTI may also be caused by bacteria on a catheter (a soft tube used to drain urine from the bladder).
Most urinary tract infections can be prevented by keeping the area clean, emptying the bladder regularly, and drinking enough fluid. Therefore, Nursing Care Center staff should make sure the resident has good hygiene. Finding the cause and getting early treatment of a UTI can prevent the infection from spreading and becoming more serious or causing complications like delirium.
The data used to compute the indicator percentage for the system overall and each individual facility was collected from Oct. 1, 2005 through March 31, 2006.
The data included on CHRISTUS Health’s nursing care centers as well as U.S. and state averages for this measure were provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
