New VHA Study: ERASE CAUTI Tray Improves Clinical Performance

A new VHA case study whitepaper details how Medline used observational studies and context-based design to build human factors and social behaviors into our redesigned Foley Catheter Management tray.

The whitepaper, Social Practice and Clinicians’ Meaning of Urinary Catheter Insertions, showed that the redesigned tray significantly influenced the clinician’s ability to provide high quality care by creating a greater focus on providing patient comfort, maintaining sterile technique and decreasing the time of the entire insertion process. The observational study was comprised of three separate three-day observations of clinicians conducting catheterizations in the emergency department, medical/surgical floors and operating rooms at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital, Spokane, WA.