Catheter-associated urinary tract infections.

By Linda Bell. Critical Care Nurse, 2012

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Scope and Impact of the Problem Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are the most common nosocomial infection, accounting for up to 40% of infections reported by acute care hospitals. Up to 80% of UTIs are associated with the presence of an indwelling urinary catheter. A catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) increases hospital cost and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. CAUTIs are considered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to represent a reasonably preventable complication of hospitalization. As such, no additional payment is provided to hospitals for CAUTI treatment-related costs.

Subfields: Epidemiology, General Health Professions, Surgery

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Citations in the corpus

• Guideline for Prevention of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections 2009 (2010, background): “Epidemiology Between 15% and 25% of hospitalized patients may receive short-term indwelling urinary catheters.(12,13) In many cases, catheters are placed for inappropriate indications, and healthcare providers are often unaware that their patients have catheters, leading to prolonged, unnecessary us”
• Diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of catheter-associated urinary tract infection in adults: 2009 International Clinical Practice Guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America. (2010, background): “Urine within condom catheters may develop high concentrations of organisms, and the urethra and skin may be colonized with uropathogens [16], so it is difficult to distinguish bladder bacteriuria from skin or mucosal contamination.”
• epic3: National Evidence-Based Guidelines for Preventing Healthcare-Associated Infections in NHS Hospitals in England (2007, background): “237, [248] [249] [250] Urine retention after catheter removal is also a frequent occurrence.”
• Health care-associated infections – an overview (2018, background): “Patients in institutional care with long-term indwelling catheters have a greater risk for the presence of pathogenic microorganisms and other urinary tract diseases than those without catheters.(105) One meta-analysis found that CAUTIs were linked with statistically significantly higher death rates”