作者
VD Rosenthal, SK Todi, C Alvarez-Moreno, M Pawar, A Karlekar, AA Zeggwagh, Z Mitrev, FE Udwadia, JA Navoa-Ng, M Chakravarthy, R Salomao, S Sahu, A Dilek, SS Kanj, H Guanche-Garcell, LE Cuellar, G Ersoz, A Nevzat-Yalcin, N Jaggi, EA Medeiros, G Ye, ÖA Akan, T Mapp, A Castañeda-Sabogal, L Matta-Cortes, F Sirmatel, N Olarte, H Torres-Hernández, N Barahona-Guzman, R Fernandez-Hidalgo, W Villamil-Gómez, D Sztokhamer, S Forciniti, R Berba, H Turgut, C Bin, Y Yang, I Pérez-Serrato, CE Lastra, S Singh, D Ozdemir, S Ulusoy, INICC Members
发表日期
2012/10
期刊
Infection
卷号
40
页码范围
517-526
出版商
Springer-Verlag
简介
Purpose
We aimed to evaluate the impact of a multidimensional infection control strategy for the reduction of the incidence of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) in patients hospitalized in adult intensive care units (AICUs) of hospitals which are members of the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC), from 40 cities of 15 developing countries: Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, India, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mexico, Morocco, Panama, Peru, Philippines, and Turkey.
Methods
We conducted a prospective before–after surveillance study of CAUTI rates on 56,429 patients hospitalized in 57 AICUs, during 360,667 bed-days. The study was divided into the baseline period (Phase 1) and the intervention period (Phase 2). In Phase 1, active surveillance was performed. In Phase 2, we implemented a …
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