Urine cultures ordered for patients with indwelling urinary catheters might lead to reporting of non-clinically significant catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) or asymptomatic bacteriuria to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN). We examined factors associated with inappropriate urine cultures orders leading to reporting of non-clinically significant CAUTIs to NHSN.
Antimicrobial stewardship & healthcare epidemiology : ASHE. 2024 Dec 30*** epublish ***
Ramez Azzam, Nicole C Nicolsen, Jacob W Pierce
Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, USA., ECU Health System, Greenville, NC, USA.