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Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Surgical Patients: a Controlled Study on the Excess Morbidity and costs
C. Delp Givens,Richard P. Wenzel +1 more
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Recommendations for prevention of urinary catheter-associated infections can be assessed accurately by comparison to the parameters of morbidity and cost.About:
This article is published in The Journal of Urology.The article was published on 1980-11-01. It has received 206 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urinary catheterization.read more
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Diagnosis, Prevention, and Treatment of Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection in Adults: 2009 International Clinical Practice Guidelines from the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Thomas M. Hooton,Suzanne F. Bradley,Diana D. Cardenas,Richard Colgan,Suzanne E. Geerlings,James C. Rice,Sanjay Saint,Anthony J. Schaeffer,Paul A. Tambayh,Peter Tenke,Lindsay E. Nicolle +10 more
TL;DR: These guidelines are intended for use by physicians in all medical specialties who perform direct patient care, with an emphasis on the care of patients in hospitals and long-term care facilities.
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Urinary tract infection: self-reported incidence and associated costs.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate that by age 24, one-third of women will have at least one physician-diagnosed UTI that was treated with prescription medication, and the annual cost of UTI cases with prescriptions to be $1.6 billion in 1995.
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Urinary Tract Infection
TL;DR: If a vaccine were developed that would prevent either initial or recurrent UTI the net benefits to society would be substantial, even at a developmental cost of one billion dollars.
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Guideline for prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections 2009.
TL;DR: This paper aims to identify studies which were relevant to one or more key questions and which were primary analytic research, systematic review or meta-analysis and written in English.
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Guideline for disinfection and sterilization in healthcare facilities, 2008
William A. Rutala,David J. Weber +1 more
TL;DR: There is no evidence that using antiseptics or disinfectants selects for antibiotic-resistant organisms in nature or that such mutants survive in nature.
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Infections due to gram-negative organisms: an analysis of 860 patients with bacteremia at the University of Minnesota Medical Center, 1958-1966.
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Guidelines for prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infections.
TL;DR: Based upon current understanding of the epidemiology of nosocomial urinary tract infections, guidelines for the prevention of catheter-associated urinary tract infection are presented.
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Hospital-acquired infections i. surveillance in a university hospital
TL;DR: A new system of surveillance is described for detecting hospital-aquired infections that was more accurate and offered advantages over a system in which surveillance depended primarily on the bacteriology laboratory.
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Bacteriuria Prevention After Indwelling Urinary Catheterization: A Controlled Study
TL;DR: A systematic review of cases of bacteremia at the Jersey City Medical Center in 1960 demonstrated a high incidence of b acteremia very similar to that reported by Finland and revealed a close association between Gram-negative rod bacterenmia and prior urinary tract instrumentation.