title: Physician-initiated daily verbal reminders decrease the duration of indwelling urinary catheter use compared with nurse-initiated reminders.
abstract: We compared the effectiveness of physician-initiated daily verbal reminders to primary care providers with nurse-initiated daily verbal reminders in decreasing the duration of inappropriate indwelling urinary catheter use in hospitalized patients. Catheter use duration was significantly decreased in the physician-initiated intervention group compared with the nurse-initiated intervention group (0.5 ± 0.8 vs 1.7 ± 2.7 days, respectively; P = .03).
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital and Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY. Electronic address: loganfelix.md@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Logan
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Felix
authors.affiliation: Infection Prevention, Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Barbara A
authors.initials: BA
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.affiliation: Infection Prevention, Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Eloisa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Santos
authors.affiliation: Infection Prevention, Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gabasan
authors.affiliation: Infection Prevention, Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital, New York, NY; Infection Prevention, Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Olena
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Dzenkevych
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital and Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Ismini
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Kourouni
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital and Mount Sinai Roosevelt Hospital, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Robert S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Klein
mesh_terms: D055499:Catheter-Related Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods*; D009726:Nurses; D010820:Physicians; D017010:Reminder Systems; D014546:Urinary Catheterization / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*
keywords: Catheter-associated urinary tract infection; quality improvement