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. 2021 Jun 1;72(11):e883-e886.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1512.

Reducing Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections via Cost-saving Diagnostic Stewardship

Allison Luu  1   2 , Fernando Dominguez  1   3 , Brandon Yeshoua  1 , Christopher Vo  1   3 , Swathi Nallapa  1   3 , David Chung  1   3 , Noah Wald-Dickler  1   3 , Susan M Butler-Wu  1   4 , Huda Khaleel  1   3 , Kate Chang  1 , Catherine P Canamar  1 , Paul Holtom  1   3 , Brad Spellberg  1
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Reducing Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections via Cost-saving Diagnostic Stewardship

Allison Luu et al. Clin Infect Dis. .

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.

Keywords: CAUTI; UTI; catheter; stewardship; urine culture.

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