Toolkit for Reducing CAUTI in Hospitals. The Toolkit for Reducing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) in Hospitals helps hospitals prevent CAUTI in patients and improve safety culture at the unit level by implementing concepts from the Comprehensive Unit-based Safety Program (CUSP).
â¢ PRIMITIVE (noun). The noun PRIMITIVE has 3 senses: 1. a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization. 2. a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived. 3. a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms. Familiarity information: PRIMITIVE used as a noun is uncommon.
6. of an early or the earliest period. 7. old-fashioned: primitive notions of style. 8. simple or crude: primitive equipment; primitive housing. 9. a. of or pertaining to a form from which a word or other linguistic form is derived; not derivative. b. of or pertaining to a protolanguage.