Barriers to Reducing Urinary Catheter Use

Barriers to reducing urinary catheter use: a qualitative assessment of a statewide initiative.

IMPORTANCE Preventing catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), a common health care-associated infection, is important for improving the care of hospitalized patients and in meeting the goals for reduction of health care-associated infections set by the US Department of Health and Human Services. OBJECTIVE To identify ways to enhance CAUTI prevention efforts based on the experienc...

Reducing unnecessary urinary catheter use and other strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection: an integrative review

BACKGROUND Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) are costly, common and often preventable by reducing unnecessary urinary catheter (UC) use. METHODS To summarise interventions to reduce UC use and CAUTIs, we updated a prior systematic review (through October 2012), and a meta-analysis regarding interventions prompting UC removal by reminders or stop orders. A narrative review s...

Reducing catheter associated urinary tract infections.

Reducing catheter-associated urinary tract infections: a quality-improvement initiative.

BACKGROUND Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are among the most common health care-associated infections in the United States, yet little is known about the prevention and epidemiology of pediatric CAUTIs. METHODS An observational study was conducted to assess the impact of a CAUTI quality improvement prevention bundle that included institution-wide standardization of and ...

Antibiotic Bladder Irrigation in Preventing and Reducing Chronic Urinary Catheter-Related Urinary Tract Infections (UTI)

California, Davis Student Health Center (UCDSHC) has made prescribing NTF preferred for acute cystitis since 2001 as TMP/SMX has community resistance rates of ~20%. Ciprofloxacin is the second line agent at UCDSHC. Methods. UCDSHC reviewed all urine cultures and susceptibilities for clinical and epidemiologic purposes. Susceptibility results were gathered from the UCDSHC microbiology laboratory...