Urinary tract infection (UTI) is the third most common infection in humans, after respiratory and gastro-intestinal infections.1 UTIs are the most common cause of both community-acquired and nosocomial infections in patients admitted to hospitals or nursing homes. It is distressing and occasionally life threatening without appropriate treatment. Refractory urinary tract infection (UTI) refers t...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of a silver-alloy hydrogel catheter on symptomatic catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). DESIGN Multicenter before-after non-randomized cohort study. SUBJECTS AND SETTING Seven acute care hospitals ranging in size from 124 to 607 beds participated in this study. The study population included adult patients with a...

INTRODUCTION Hospital-acquired Urinary tract infections make 35% of all the hospital-acquired infections, and about 80% of them are related to the catheterization of the urinary bladder. PURPOSE To determine clinical characteristics and dominant etiologic factors of Urinary Tract Infections associated with urinary catheter (C-UTIs). METHODS Determined clinical characteristics of C-UTIs were...

BACKGROUND Indwelling urinary catheter duration is an important risk factor for catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). OBJECTIVE To audit patient-level postoperative catheter duration and measure the impact of its feedback to nursing staff on postoperative catheter duration and CAUTI rates. DESIGN Preobservational and postobservational study. SETTING Two surgical units at ...