1157. GET IT OUT! Nurses and Clinical Quality Improvement Specialists Drive Initiative to Reduce Standardized Utilization Ratios for Indwelling Urinary Catheters in Hospitalized Patients

BACKGROUND: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) account for 34% of all healthcare-associated infections (HAI). Urinary catheters (UC) are placed in 15–25% of hospitalized patients and >75% of HAI UTIs are UC-related. Bacteria introduced via UC can colonize the bladder within 3 days. So, the greatest...

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Autores principales: Martinez, Aldo, Parilla, Deborah, Green, Melissa, Murphy, Anne, Suarez-Ponce, Sylvia, Rasmussen, Teresa, Thomas, Karen, Patel, Shruti B, Smith, Kevin R, Gomez, Belkys T, Parada, Jorge P
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6808786/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.1020

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6808786/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz360.1020

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