title: The quest for best practice in caring for the home care patient with an indwelling urinary catheter: the New Jersey experience.
abstract: This article describes the development of a urinary tract infection (UTI) benchmarking project by the Home Care Association of New Jersey for New Jersey's home care agencies. In the quest for best practice in caring for the home care client with an indwelling urinary catheter, identification of an acceptable UTI rate for indwelling catheter patients was needed to use as a benchmark for care practices.A literature search showed a paucity of evidence. Therefore, the Association agreed to lead a project aimed at identifying what was currently happening in home care settings as a beginning benchmark.
authors.affiliation: Home Care Association of New Jersey, Iselin, New Jersey 08830, USA. jfs@homecarenj.org
authors.forename: Josephine
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sienkiewicz
authors.forename: Ginny
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wilkinson
authors.forename: Kathleen D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Emr
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling / Q000009:adverse effects; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000193:education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D004509:Education, Nursing, Continuing / Q000458:organization & administration; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000458:organization & administration; D033181:Information Dissemination; D020380:Needs Assessment; D009515:New Jersey / Q000453:epidemiology; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D011367:Professional Staff Committees / Q000458:organization & administration; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration; D012956:Societies, Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration; D014546:Urinary Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000451:nursing*; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*