Contemporary Epidemiology of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs) in a Tertiary Care Center: Is Foley Re-Insertion a Novel Risk Factor?

BACKGROUND: CAUTIs are one of the most common causes of hospital-acquired infections. We report on a retrospective analysis performed on prospectively collected CAUTI surveillance data from 2014 to 2016 at a large tertiary care academic hospital METHODS: A total of 181 CAUTIs by NHSN definition were...

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Autores principales: Nowbakht, Cima, Boston, Kelley M, Harrison, Nicole, Patel, Bela, Katz, Jeffrey, Ostrosky-Zeichner, Luis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5631229/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx163.838

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