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Comparison of two methods of documenting urinary and central venous catheters at an academic medical center.
Am J Infect Control. 2015 Feb 13;
Authors: Quijano Rondan BR, Stachel A, Phillips M
Abstract
Accurate documentation of the use of invasive devices, such as urinary and central line catheters, is important to track potential catheter-associated infections. Real-time identification of device infections allows practitioners to initiate timely apparent-cause analyses, therefore allowing rapid improvement of practice. For this reason, it was crucial to ensure our institution's mechanism to capture possible catheter-associated infections is validated after the adoption of a new electronic medical record system.
PMID: 25687357 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]