Reducing Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections via Cost-saving Diagnostic Stewardship. (6th October 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Luu, Allison; Dominguez, Fernando; Yeshoua, Brandon; Vo, Christopher; Nallapa, Swathi; Chung, David; Wald-Dickler, Noah; Butler-Wu, Susan M; Khaleel, Huda; Chang, Kate; Canamar, Catherine P; Holtom, Paul; Spellberg, Brad
• Is Part Of: Clinical infectious diseases. Volume 72:Number 11(2021)
• Page Start: e883
• Page End: e886
• Publication Date: 2020-10-06
• Subjects: CAUTI -- stewardship -- UTI -- catheter -- urine culture; Communicable diseases -- Periodicals; 616.905
• DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1512
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1058-4838

Abstract

Abstract: We conducted a quality improvement project at our large, public, tertiary-care, academic hospital to reduce the standardized infection ratio (SIR) of hospital-acquired catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs). Our diagnostic stewardship program, based on education and audit and feedback, significantly reduced inpatient urine culture orders and CAUTI SIR.