Introduction. Community-acquired urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are usually treated empirically. Geographical variations in etiologic agents and their antibiotic sensitivity patterns are common. Knowledge of antibiotic resistance trends is important for improving evidence-based recommendations for empirical treatment of UTIs. Our aim was to determine the major bacterial etiologies of CAUTIs ...

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in hospitalized patients. Up to 15% of patients develop an infection while hospitalized in the United States, which accounts for approximately 1.7 million HAIs, 99,000 deaths annually and over 10 billion dollars in costs per year. A significant percentage of HAIs are preventable using evidenced-based strategi...

One can define an action of sl2 on a category to be a sequence of categories with functors between them satisfying certain relations. Such actions were studied by Chuang-Rouquier in the context of representations of the symmetric group in positive characteristic. They used this action to build an equivalence of categories which settled a case of Broue’s conjecture. Later, Cautis, Licata, and th...

The healthcare industry is increasingly focusing on reducing preventable complications. Iatrogenic complications such as pressure wounds, central line infections and catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are not only costly, but can lead to potentially life threatening sequelae. It is estimated that each CAUTI costs anywhere from $749-1007, and CAUTIs were among the first select...

32The purpose of this manuscript is to define the evidence based bundling process that serves as the foundation for catheterassociated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) bundles. Thismanuscript also describes evidence based interventions that, when bundled together, candecrease the hospital acquired CAUTI. Patients are endangered by hospital-acquired infections(HAIs) nationwide. In...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are preventable complications of hospitalization. An interdisciplinary team developed a curriculum to increase awareness of the presence of indwelling urinary catheters (IUCs) in hospitalized patients, addressed practical, primarily nurse-controlled inpatient risk-reduction interventions, and promoted the use of the IUC labels ("tags"). Five...

BACKGROUND Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are common, morbid, and costly. Nearly 25% of hospitalized patients are catheterized yearly, and 10% develop urinary tract infections. Evidence-based guidelines exist for indwelling urinary catheter management but are not consistently followed. METHODS A pre/post intervention design was used in this quality improvement project t...