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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Cambridge University Press,
2024-07-01T00:00:00Z.
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