Prevention Strategies for All Hospital-Onset Urinary Tract Infections: Best Practice Consensus Recommendations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospital-onset urinary tract infections (HOUTIs), including catheter-associated (CAUTI) and non-catheter-associated UTI (non-CAUTI), remain a significant source of morbidity and healthcare burden. While CAUTI prevention strategies are well established, non-CAUTIs lack standardized definitions, surveillance protocols, and targeted interventions. To address this gap, consensus recommendations identifying prevention strategies for HOUTIs in adult patients were developed.

Methods

A panel of 17 experts in infectious diseases, infection prevention and control, healthcare epidemiology and quality improvement, clinical microbiology, urology, urogynecology, and nursing, participated in a modified Delphi process. An online anonymized survey based on a systematic literature

SUBMITTER: Septimus EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12919440 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature