Changing the culture: impact of a diagnostic stewardship intervention for urine culture testing and CAUTI prevention in an urban safety-net community hospital

• Auteurs principaux: Alfredo J. Mena Lora (Auteur), Jessica Hua (Auteur), Mirza Ali (Auteur), Candice Krill (Auteur), Eden Takhsh (Auteur), Susan C. Bleasdale (Auteur)
• Format: Livre
• Publié: Cambridge University Press, 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Sujets: article
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Cultures from urinary catheters are often ordered without indication, leading to possible misdiagnosis of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), increasing antimicrobial use, and C difficile. We implemented a diagnostic stewardship intervention for urine cultures from catheters in a c...