The Potential Impact of Excluding Funguria from the Surveillance Definition of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection

Funguria rarely represents true infection in the urinary tract. Excluding yeast from the catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) surveillance definition reduced CAUTI rates by nearly 25% in community hospitals and at an academic, tertiary-care medical center.

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Publicado no:Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
Main Authors: Dicks, Kristen V., Baker, Arthur W., Durkin, Michael J., Lewis, Sarah S., Moehring, Rebekah W., Anderson, Deverick J., Sexton, Daniel J., Chen, Luke F.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: 2015
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Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4405776/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25782903
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2014.72
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