DOI: 10.1097/NCQ.0000000000000228 academic medical center routinely ensures that all clinicians are following best practices for maintaining urinary catheters. Inpatient and procedure areas at the organization have CAUTI prevention champions who receive routine education on CAUTI prevention and are accountable for spreading change in the areas in which they practice. Anecdotal evidence collecte...

The number of catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) increases every year. The increasing number of CAUTIs bears on fact that urinary catheters became second most often used foreign body inserted into human body. Over 40% of nosocomial infections are infections of urinary tract, especially infections of catheterised patients (Gorman & Jones, 1991). Despite good aseptic management...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effectiveness of a nurse-driven indwelling urinary catheter removal protocol in an acute care setting. BACKGROUND The most common hospital-acquired infection is catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI). These infections account for 40% of all hospital-acquired infections. Although indwelling urinary catheters may be a needed intervention, studies have demons...

Background. Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are very common in community practice. Both the South African (SA) antibiotic stewardship programme (2015) and Essential Medicines List for SA (2018) recommend ciprofloxacin as first-line treatment community-acquired urinary (CAUTIs). The pathogens responsible CAUTIs their susceptibility profiles need to be documented, which is important developing up...

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...

Abstract Background Community acquired urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are among the most common bacterial diagnosed in community health practice resulting high rates of morbidity and economic costs associated with its treatment. CAUTIs usually treated empirically. Geographical variations etiologic agents their antibiotic sensitivity patterns common. Knowledge resistance trends is important f...

Urinary catheter placement is an extremely common medical intervention. It can be used either temporarily, for example to drain a full bladder, to monitor urine output or it can be indwelling for long term drainage. While urinary catheters are a safe medical practice, complications can and do arise from their use and can be a source of morbidity for hospital or nursing home residents. The term ...