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The Impact of 2015 NHSN Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Definition Change on Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) Rates and CLABSI Prevention Efforts at an Academic Medical Center

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2018

Sonali D. Advani ,
Rachael A. Lee ,
Martha Long ,
Mariann Schmitz  and
Bernard C. Camins
Sonali D. Advani*
Affiliation:
Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
Rachael A. Lee
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
Martha Long
Affiliation:
Department of Infection Prevention and Control, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
Mariann Schmitz
Affiliation:
Department of Infection Prevention and Control, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
Bernard C. Camins
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
*
Address correspondence to Sonali Advani MD, MPH, Associate Hospital Epidemiologist, Yale-New Haven Hospital, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale University School of Medicine, 20 York St, HB 527, New Haven, CT 06510 ([email protected]).
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Abstract

The 2015 changes in the catheter-associated urinary tract infection definition led to an increase in central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) and catheter-related candidemia in some health systems due to the change in CLABSI attribution. However, our rates remained unchanged in 2015 and further declined in 2016 with the implementation of new vascular-access guidelines.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2018;878–880

Type
Concise Communication
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 39 , Issue 7 , July 2018 , pp. 878 - 880
Copyright
© 2018 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 

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Footnotes

PREVIOUS PRESENTATION. The data from this study were presented in part at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, IDWeek 2017 on October 5, 2017, in San Diego, California, as a poster presentation (abstract 474) in the session “HAI: Surveillance Plus Reporting.”

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