The potential impact of excluding funguria from the surveillance definition of catheter-associated urinary tract infection.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2015 Apr;36(4):467-9
Authors: Dicks KV, Baker AW, Durkin MJ, Lewis SS, Moehring RW, Anderson DJ, Sexton DJ, Chen LF
Abstract
Funguria rarely represents true infection in the urinary tract. Excluding yeast from the catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) surveillance definition reduced CAUTI rates by nearly 25% in community hospitals and at an academic, tertiary-care medical center. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2015;00(0): 1-3.
PMID: 25782903 [PubMed - in process]