title: [Study of incidence and risk factors of nosocomial urinary tract infection in patients with indwelling urinary catheter in intensive care units].
abstract: A prospective study was carried out in a medical and surgical ICU to determine the incidence of nosocomial urinary tract infection (NUTI) and to identify the most important risk factors. Over a 6 month period, 180 patients were included. All had an indwelling catheter. Six risk factors were studied: age, sex, illness (medical, surgical, trauma), hospital or extra-hospital origin, simplified acute physiology score and length of bladder catheterization. Forty three patients developed a NUTI. Length of bladder catheterization was the only significant different risk factor in infected and non-infected patients. Kaplan Meir analysis was used to determine time to development of NUTI. The risk rose from 19% for 5 day long catheterization to 50% for 14 day long catheterization.
authors.affiliation: Service de réanimation médicale polyvalente, Centre hospitalier régional et universitaire de l'Hôtel Dieu, Nantes.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Tasseau
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chupin
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pradier
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Villers
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Baron
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Nicolas
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008297:Male; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D013997:Time Factors; D014546:Urinary Catheterization; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*
vernacular_title: Etude de l'incidence et des facteurs de risque de l'infection urinaire nosocomiale chez les malades sondés en réanimation polyvalente.