Recognizing asymptomatic bacteriuria in the surveillance of catheter-associated urinary tract infections-beyond fever and positive urine culture

• Päätekijät: Hayato Mitaka (Tekijä), Chloe Bryson-Cahn (Tekijä), Jorge O. Estebane (Tekijä), Vanessa A. Makarewicz (Tekijä), John B. Lynch (Tekijä), Jeannie D. Chan (Tekijä)
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• Julkaistu: Cambridge University Press, 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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Among 143 cases of National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), 40% were considered catheter-associated asymptomatic bacteriuria (CA-ASB), and 18% clinical CAUTI. An alternative source of fever was present in 70% of CA-ASB. NHSN CAUTI may not be an...