Healthcare worker attitudes on routine non-urological preoperative urine cultures: a qualitative assessment.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Many preoperative urine cultures are of low value and may even lead to patient harms. This study sought to understand practices around ordering preoperative urine cultures and prescribing antibiotic treatment.

Design

Open-ended, semi-structured qualitative interviews.

Setting

5 Veterans Affairs hospitals.

Participants

Interviews with 14 surgeons (9 surgeons, 5 surgical leaders), 7 infectious disease physicians, 8 surgical advanced practice providers (APPs), 1 surgical nurse manager, 3 infectious disease pharmacists, 1 hospitalist, and 1 lab manager.

Methods

We interviewed participants using a qualitative semi-structured interview guide. Collected data was coded inductively and with the Dual Process Model (DPM) using MAXQDA software. Data in the

SUBMITTER: Friberg Walhof JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11611506 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature