Culturing practices and the care of the urinary catheter in reducing NHSN-defined catheter-associated urinary tract infections: The tale of two teaching hospitals

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2018 Dec;39(12):1494-1496. doi: 10.1017/ice.2018.251. Epub 2018 Oct 10.

Abstract

We compared interventions to improve urinary catheter care and urine culturing in adult intensive care units of 2 teaching hospitals. Compared to hospital A, hospital B had lower catheter utilization, more compliance with appropriate indications and maintenance, but higher urine culture use and more positive urine cultures per 1,000 patient days.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Multicenter Study
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Antimicrobial Stewardship / statistics & numerical data
  • Catheter-Related Infections / epidemiology*
  • Cross Infection / prevention & control*
  • Hospitals, Teaching
  • Humans
  • Infection Control / methods*
  • Intensive Care Units / organization & administration*
  • Urinary Tract Infections / epidemiology*
  • Urine / microbiology