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

• Главные авторы: Sarah Sansom (Автор), Audrey Goldstein (Автор), Michael Lin (Автор), Michael Schoeny (Автор), Ruth Kniuksta (Автор), Alexandra Seguin (Автор), Alexander Tomich (Автор), Brian Stein (Автор), John Segreti (Автор)
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• Опубликовано: Cambridge University Press, 2024-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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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...