The qualitative study included 9 semi-structured phone interviews with key personnel at 1 purposefully sampled hospital and 9 in-person interviews at the same hospital, to identify recurrent and merging themes that characterize how hospitals address hospital-acquired UTI. It is hoped that the findings will help health-care professionals and mangers design approaches that reduce hospital-acquired UTI. Even though preventing hospital-acquired UTI was a low priority for many wards, the results suggest several strategies that can be used to promote the use of important UTI prevention practices. Firstly, highlighting non-infectious complications of urinary catheter use—for example, delayed discharge and lack of patient mobility—can aid the implementation
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Secondly early removal of urinary catheters has considerable support therefore should be the initial focus of preventive practices aimed minimising hospital-acquired UTI. Finally, local champions and policy makers should be cautious of the important role that various factors—such as leadership incentives and education—play in the prevention of hospital-acquired UTI. These findings should be interpreted in the context of the following limitations. The qualitative study conducted to understand why there are higher rates of non compliance on preventative practice. Accordingly, the aim was not to generalize findings from a study sample to a population or to provide precise estimates of effect size and statistical significance, as is common with quantitative evaluation. Although the sample is large for a qualitative evaluation, it would be inappropriate to generalize these findings to the entire NHS. The intent of the researcher was to provide information that could not be produced through a quantitative study, thereby offering decision makers and nurses with leads that can be explored …show more content…
Findings from the qualitative study can therefore be thought of as lessons for other settings or working hypotheses. It is hoped that the findings will provide a platform for local discussion of hospital-specific barriers and facilitators. The researcher chose to study 1 hospital in detail—4 wards of which were evaluated in depth by visiting them in person rather than collect and analyse data on more hospitals, because it was resourceful to perform data collection and analysis sufficiently and rigorous enough for validity and useful findings. The value of qualitative analysis depends in part of the researcher 's ability to interpret and understand, as much as resources allow, the findings in each
Secondly early removal of urinary catheters has considerable support therefore should be the initial focus of preventive practices aimed minimising hospital-acquired UTI. Finally, local champions and policy makers should be cautious of the important role that various factors—such as leadership incentives and education—play in the prevention of hospital-acquired UTI. These findings should be interpreted in the context of the following limitations. The qualitative study conducted to understand why there are higher rates of non compliance on preventative practice. Accordingly, the aim was not to generalize findings from a study sample to a population or to provide precise estimates of effect size and statistical significance, as is common with quantitative evaluation. Although the sample is large for a qualitative evaluation, it would be inappropriate to generalize these findings to the entire NHS. The intent of the researcher was to provide information that could not be produced through a quantitative study, thereby offering decision makers and nurses with leads that can be explored …show more content…
Findings from the qualitative study can therefore be thought of as lessons for other settings or working hypotheses. It is hoped that the findings will provide a platform for local discussion of hospital-specific barriers and facilitators. The researcher chose to study 1 hospital in detail—4 wards of which were evaluated in depth by visiting them in person rather than collect and analyse data on more hospitals, because it was resourceful to perform data collection and analysis sufficiently and rigorous enough for validity and useful findings. The value of qualitative analysis depends in part of the researcher 's ability to interpret and understand, as much as resources allow, the findings in each