New Impact Case Study: AHRQ Safety Program Reduces Hospital’s Catheter-Related Infection Rate

Saint Anthony Hospital, a 151-bed community hospital in Chicago, reduced catheter-related infections among its patients by 90 percent from 2014 to 2016 – and to zero in 2017 – by adopting tools and strategies from AHRQ’s Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program. Find out more in a new Impact Case Study.

The CUSP Method

The Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP) is a method that can help clinical teams make care safer by combining improved teamwork, clinical best practices, and the science of safety. The Core CUSP toolkit gives clinical teams the training resources and tools to apply the CUSP method and build their capacity to address safety issues.

How To Use the CUSP Method

A number of toolkits are available to help clinical teams adopt the CUSP method to make care safer. Most teams will want to start with the Core CUSP Toolkit to learn key principles of the CUSP method. Once you’ve learned the basics, additional toolkits can help you target certain safety issues in specific settings of care.

Core CUSP Toolkit

Created for clinicians by clinicians, the Core CUSP toolkit is modular and modifiable to meet individual unit needs. Each module includes teaching tools and resources to support change at the unit level, presented through facilitator notes that take you step by step through the module, presentation slides, tools, and videos.

Page last reviewed March 2018
Page originally created December 2012

Internet Citation: The CUSP Method. Content last reviewed March 2018. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/professionals/education/curriculum-tools/cusptoolkit/index.html