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Impact of Changes to the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Definition on Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) Rates in Intensive Care Units at an Academic Medical Center

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

Sonali D. Advani ,
Rachael A. Lee ,
Mariann Schmitz  and
Bernard C. Camins
Sonali D. Advani*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
Rachael A. Lee
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
Mariann Schmitz
Affiliation:
Department of Infection Prevention and Control, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama.
Bernard C. Camins
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama
*
Address correspondence to Sonali Advani, MD, MPH, UAB Division of Infectious Diseases, 1900 University Blvd, THT 229, Birmingham AL 35294 ([email protected]).
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 38 , Issue 5 , May 2017 , pp. 621 - 623
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© 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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PREVIOUS PRESENTATION. The data from this study were presented in part at the 54th Annual Meeting of Infectious Diseases Society of America, IDWeek 2016, in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 28, 2016 (abstract 945, session 131).

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