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Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections in Intensive Care Units Can Be Reduced by Prompting Physicians to Remove Unnecessary Catheters

  • Wei-Chun Huang (a1), Shue-Ren Wann (a1) (a2), Shoa-Lin Lin (a1) (a3), Calvin M. Kunin (a4), Ming-Ho Kung (a1), Chin-Hsun Lin (a1), Chien-Wei Hsu (a1), Chun-Peng Liu (a3), Susan Shin-Jung Lee (a2), Yung-Ching Liu (a2), Kwok-Hung Lai (a3) and Tzu-Wen Lin (a5)...
Abstract
Objective:

Indwelling urinary catheters are the most common source of infections in intensive care units (ICUs). The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of nurse-generated daily reminders to physicians to remove unnecessary urinary catheters 5 days after insertion.

 Design:

A time-sequence nonrandomized intervention study.

 Setting:

Adult ICUs (medical, surgical, cardiovascular surgical, neurosurgical, and coronary care) of a tertiary-care university medical center.

 Patients:

All patients admitted to the adult ICUs during a 2-year period. The study consisted of a 12-month observational phase (15,960 patient-days) followed by a 12-month intervention phase (15,525 patient-days).

 Intervention:

Daily reminders to physicians from the nursing staff to remove unnecessary urinary catheters 5 days after insertion.

 Results:

The duration of urinary catheterization was significantly reduced during the intervention phase (from 7.0 ± 1.1 days to 4.6 ± 0.7 days; P < .001). The rate of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) was also significantly reduced (from 11.5 ± 3.1 to 8.3 ± 2.5 patients with CAUTI per 1,000 catheter-days; P = .009). There was a linear relationship between the monthly average duration of catheterization and the rate of CAUTI (r = 0.50; P = .01). The excess monthly cost of antibiotics for CAUTI was reduced by 69% (from $4,021 ± $1,800 to $1,220 ± $941; P = .004).

 Conclusion:

This study demonstrated that a simple measure instituted as part of a continuous quality improvement program significantly reduced the duration of urinary catheterization, rate of CAUTI, and additional costs of antibiotics to manage CAUTI.
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COPYRIGHT: © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2004
Corresponding author
Intensive Care Unit, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, No. 386, Dar-Chung First Road, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China
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