Changing the culture: impact of a diagnostic stewardship intervention for urine culture testing and CAUTI prevention in an urban safety-net community hospital

Changing the culture: impact of a diagnostic stewardship intervention for urine culture testing and CAUTI prevention in an urban safety-net community hospital

Cultures from urinary catheters are often ordered without indication, leading to possible misdiagnosis of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), increasing antimicrobial use, and . We implemented a diagnostic stewardship intervention for urine cultures from catheters in a community ho...

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Veröffentlicht in:Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE 2024, Vol.4 (1), p.e14-e14, Article e14
Hauptverfasser: Mena Lora, Alfredo J, Hua, Jessica, Ali, Mirza, Krill, Candice, Takhsh, Eden, Bleasdale, Susan C
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Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Catheters
Concise Communication
COVID-19
Critical care
Feedback
Fever
Hospitals
Infectious diseases
Medical diagnosis
Medical instruments
Pandemics
Patient safety
Urine
Urogenital system
Workforce planning
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Zusammenfassung:Cultures from urinary catheters are often ordered without indication, leading to possible misdiagnosis of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), increasing antimicrobial use, and . We implemented a diagnostic stewardship intervention for urine cultures from catheters in a community hospital that led to a reduction in cultures and CAUTIs.
ISSN:2732-494X
2732-494X
DOI:10.1017/ash.2024.12