Reducing unnecessary culturing: a systems approach to evaluating urine culture ordering and collection practices among nurses in two acute care settings

BACKGROUND: Inappropriate ordering and acquisition of urine cultures leads to unnecessary treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB). Treatment of ASB contributes to antimicrobial resistance particularly among hospital-acquired organisms. Our objective was to investigate urine culture ordering and...

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Autores principales: Redwood, Robert, Knobloch, Mary Jo, Pellegrini, Daniela C., Ziegler, Matthew J., Pulia, Michael, Safdar, Nasia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5759376/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29340148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-017-0278-9

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5759376/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29340148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-017-0278-9

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