Literature DB >> 25782903

The potential impact of excluding funguria from the surveillance definition of catheter-associated urinary tract infection.

Kristen V Dicks1, Arthur W Baker1, Michael J Durkin1, Sarah S Lewis1, Rebekah W Moehring1, Deverick J Anderson1, Daniel J Sexton1, Luke F Chen1.   

Abstract

Funguria rarely represents true infection in the urinary tract. Excluding yeast from the catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) surveillance definition reduced CAUTI rates by nearly 25% in community hospitals and at an academic, tertiary-care medical center.

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Year:  2015        PMID： 25782903      PMCID： PMC4405776          DOI： 10.1017/ice.2014.72

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol        ISSN： 0899-823X            Impact factor:   3.254


  4 in total

1.  Prospective multicenter surveillance study of funguria in hospitalized patients. The National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Mycoses Study Group.

Authors:  C A Kauffman; J A Vazquez; J D Sobel; H A Gallis; D S McKinsey; A W Karchmer; A M Sugar; P K Sharkey; G J Wise; R Mangi; A Mosher; J Y Lee; W E Dismukes
Journal:  Clin Infect Dis       Date:  2000-01       Impact factor: 9.079

2.  Candiduria: a randomized, double-blind study of treatment with fluconazole and placebo. The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Mycoses Study Group.

Authors:  J D Sobel; C A Kauffman; D McKinsey; M Zervos; J A Vazquez; A W Karchmer; J Lee; C Thomas; H Panzer; W E Dismukes
Journal:  Clin Infect Dis       Date:  2000-01       Impact factor: 9.079

3.  Nosocomial infections in medical intensive care units in the United States. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System.

Authors:  M J Richards; J R Edwards; D H Culver; R P Gaynes
Journal:  Crit Care Med       Date:  1999-05       Impact factor: 7.598

4.  The network approach for prevention of healthcare-associated infections: long-term effect of participation in the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network.

Authors:  Deverick J Anderson; Becky A Miller; Luke F Chen; Linda H Adcock; Evelyn Cook; A Lynn Cromer; Susan Louis; Paul A Thacker; Daniel J Sexton
Journal:  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol       Date:  2011-04       Impact factor: 3.254
  4 in total
  1 in total

1.  Impact of modified CDC/NHSN surveillance definition on the incidence of CAUTI: a study from an Indian tertiary care hospital.

Authors:  Bijayini Behera; Jayanti Jena; Ashoka Mahapatra; Jyoti Biswala
Journal:  J Infect Prev       Date:  2020-12-29
  1 in total

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