Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-hc48f Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-31T23:51:24.141Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Housestaff Knowledge Related to Urinary Catheter Use and Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2015

Molly L. Paras ,
Erica S. Shenoy ,
Heather E. Hsu ,
Rochelle P. Walensky  and
David C. Hooper
Molly L. Paras*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Erica S. Shenoy
Affiliation:
Infection Control Unit and Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Heather E. Hsu
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Rochelle P. Walensky
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
David C. Hooper
Affiliation:
Infection Control Unit and Medical Practice Evaluation Center, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
*
Address correspondence to Molly L. Paras, MD, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cox 5, 55 Fruit St, Boston, MA 02114 ([email protected]).
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Despite published catheter-associated urinary tract infection prevention guidelines, inappropriate catheter use is common. We surveyed housestaff about their knowledge of catheter-associated urinary tract infections at a teaching hospital and found most are aware of prevention guidelines; however, their application to clinical scenarios and catheter practices fall short of national goals.

Infect. Control Hosp. Epidemiol. 2015;36(11):1355–1357

Type
Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 36 , Supplement 11 , November 2015 , pp. 1355 - 1357
Copyright
© 2015 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

1. Hooton, TM, Bradley, SF, Cardenas, DD, et al. Diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of catheter-associated urinary tract infection in adults: 2009 International Clinical Practice Guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Clin Infect Dis 2010;50:625–663.Google Scholar
2. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System Report, data summary from January 1992 through June 2004, issued October 2004. Am J Infect Control 2004;32:470–485.Google Scholar
3. Saint, S, Meddings, JA, Calfee, D, et al. Catheter-associated urinary tract infection and the Medicare rule changes. Ann Intern Med 2009;150:877–884.Google Scholar
4. Gould, CV, Umscheid, CA, Agarwal, RK, et al. Guideline for prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections 2009. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2010;31:319–326.Google Scholar
5. Tiwari, MM, Charlton, ME, Anderson, JR, et al. Inappropriate use of urinary catheters: a prospective observational study. Am J Infect Control 2012;40:51–54.Google Scholar
6. Saint, S, Wiese, J, Amory, JK, et al. Are physicians aware of which of their patients have indwelling urinary catheters? Am J Med 2000;109:476–480.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
7. Meddings, J, Rogers, MA, Macy, M, et al. Systematic review and meta-analysis: reminder systems to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections and urinary catheter use in hospitalized patients. Clin Infect Dis 2010;51:550–560.Google Scholar
8. Harris, PA, Taylor, R, Thielke, R, et al. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—a metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support. J Biomed Inform 2009;42:377–381.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
9. Meddings, J, Rogers, MA, Krein, SL, et al. Reducing unnecessary urinary catheter use and other strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infection: an integrative review. BMJ Qual Saf 2014;23:277–289.Google Scholar
10. Grava-Gubins, I, Scott, S. Effects of various methodologic strategies: survey response rates among Canadian physicians and physicians-in-training. Can Fam Physician 2008;54:1424–1430.Google Scholar
Supplementary material: File

Paras supplementary material S1

ICHE Survey Supplementary Material

Download Paras supplementary material S1(File)
File 20.8 KB