Changing the culture: impact of a diagnostic stewardship intervention for urine culture testing and CAUTI prevention in an urban safety-net community hospital.

ABSTRACT: Cultures from urinary catheters are often ordered without indication, leading to possible misdiagnosis of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI), increasing antimicrobial use, and C difficile. We implemented a diagnostic stewardship intervention for urine cultures from catheters in a community hospital that led to a reduction in cultures and CAUTIs.

SUBMITTER: Mena Lora AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10897718 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature