title: Catheter-associated urinary tract infection: does changing the definition change quality?
abstract: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently narrowed its definition of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) to exclude asymptomatic bacteriuria. Although CAUTI rates decreased after the definition was changed, rates of related measures remained relatively stagnant, which indicates that longitudinal measurements of CAUTI may be misleading and that the change in definition did not itself impact care.
authors: Department of Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York 10065, USA. map9069@med.cornell.edu
authors: Matthew J
authors: MJ
authors: Press
authors: Joshua P
authors: JP
authors: Metlay
mesh_terms: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D055499:Catheter-Related Infections / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002487:Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S.; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D016012:Poisson Distribution; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D014556:Urine / Q000382:microbiology
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents
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