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Multicenter Study
. 2019 Oct 28;9(10):e028740.
doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-028740.

Change in staff perspectives on indwelling urinary catheter use after implementation of an intervention bundle in seven Swiss acute care hospitals: results of a before/after survey study

Andrea Niederhauser  1 , Stephanie Züllig  2 , Jonas Marschall  3   4 , Alexander Schweiger  3   5 , Gregor John  6 , Stefan P Kuster  3   7 , David Lb Schwappach  2   8 ; progress! Safe Urinary Catheterization Collaboration Group; progress! Safe urinary catheterization collaboration group
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Multicenter Study

Change in staff perspectives on indwelling urinary catheter use after implementation of an intervention bundle in seven Swiss acute care hospitals: results of a before/after survey study

Andrea Niederhauser et al. BMJ Open. .

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate changes in staff perspectives towards indwelling urinary catheter (IUC) use after implementation of a 1-year quality improvement project.

Design: Repeated cross-sectional survey at baseline (October 2016) and 12-month follow-up (October 2017).

Setting: Seven acute care hospitals in Switzerland.

Participants: The survey was targeted at all nursing and medical staff members working at the participating hospitals at the time of survey distribution. A total of 1579 staff members participated in the baseline survey (T0) (49% response rate) and 1527 participated in the follow-up survey (T1) (47% response rate).

Intervention: A multimodal intervention bundle, consisting of an evidence-based indication list, daily re-evaluation of ongoing catheter need and staff training, was implemented over the course of 9 months.

Main outcome measures: Staff knowledge (15 items), perception of current practices and culture (scale 1-7), self-reported responsibilities (multiple-response question) and determinants of behaviour (scale 1-7) before and after implementation of the intervention bundle.

Results: The mean number of correctly answered knowledge questions increased significantly between the two survey periods (T0: 10.4, T1: 11.0; p<0.001). Self-reported responsibilities with regard to IUC management by nurses and physicians changed only slightly over time. Perception of current practices and culture in regard to safe urinary catheter use increased significantly (T0: 5.3, T1: 5.5; p<0.001). Significant changes were also observed for determinants of behaviour (T0: 5.3, T1: 5.6; p<0.001).

Conclusion: We found small but significant changes in staff perceptions after implementation of an evidence-based intervention bundle. Efforts now need to be targeted at sustaining and reinforcing these changes, so that restrictive use of IUCs becomes an integral part of the hospital culture.

Keywords: indwelling urinary catheter; intervention bundle; patient safety; perception; survey.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Self-reported responsibilities in regard to urinary catheters by profession. *Change between time periods significant at p<0.05.
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