Impact and Safety of Diagnostic Stewardship to Improve Urine Culture Testing Among Patients with Indwelling Urinary Catheters

Impact and Safety of Diagnostic Stewardship to Improve Urine Culture Testing Among Patients with Indwelling Urinary Catheters

Background: Indiscriminate urine culturing of patients with indwelling urinary catheters may lead to overdiagnosis of urinary tract infections, resulting in unnecessary antibiotic treatment and inaccurate reporting of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) as a hospital quality metric...

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Main Authors: Sarah Sansom (Author), Audrey Goldstein (Author), Michael Lin (Author), Michael Schoeny (Author), Ruth Kniuksta (Author), Alexandra Seguin (Author), Alexander Tomich (Author), Brian Stein (Author), John Segreti (Author)
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Published: Cambridge University Press, 2024-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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