Preventing Health Care-Associated Infections Through Implementation of an Interprofessional Visual Management Safety Tracker.

Background: The management of health care associated infections (HAIs) challenges acute care facilities due to variability in practices. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to decrease central line-associated bloodstream infection, catheter-associated urinary tract infection, and Clostridioides difficile infection in a high acuity care environment using a visual management (VM) tool to address practice variations.

Local Problem: An acute care unit experienced increasing HAIs.