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1. Culturing practices and the care of the urinary catheter in reducing NHSN-defined catheter-associated urinary tract infections: The tale of two teaching hospitals

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Katherine Reyes, Marcus J. Zervos, Karen Jones, Ana C. Bardossy, Susan Szpunar, Mohamad G. Fakih, Takiah Williams, and George Alangaden

Subjects
Microbiology (medical), Adult, medicine.medical_specialty, Epidemiology, Urinary system, MEDLINE, Urinary catheter care, Urine, 030501 epidemiology, 03 medical and health sciences, Antimicrobial Stewardship, 0302 clinical medicine, Intensive care, medicine, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Hospitals, Teaching, Urinary catheter, Cross Infection, Infection Control, business.industry, Catheter, Intensive Care Units, Infectious Diseases, Multicenter study, Catheter-Related Infections, Emergency medicine, Urinary Tract Infections, 0305 other medical science, business
Abstract

We compared interventions to improve urinary catheter care and urine culturing in adult intensive care units of 2 teaching hospitals. Compared to hospital A, hospital B had lower catheter utilization, more compliance with appropriate indications and maintenance, but higher urine culture use and more positive urine cultures per 1,000 patient days.

Published
2018

2. From the Central Line to the Ventilator: Do Resident Physicians Know and Practice Mitigating Risk?

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Ana C. Bardossy, Susan Szpunar, Mina El-Kateb, Mohamad G. Fakih, Raymond Hilu, Elango Edhayan, Debi Hopfner, Steven Minnick, Marcus J. Zervos, Louis D. Saravolatz, Katherine Reyes, and Takiah Williams

Subjects
Central line, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Infectious Diseases, Oncology, business.industry, Medicine, Medical emergency, business, medicine.disease
Published
2015
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3. Improving the Culture of Culturing: When Do Resident Physicians Obtain Urine Cultures, and What Do They Do With Them?

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Rebecca Battjes, Ana C. Bardossy, Steven Minnick, Marcus J. Zervos, Mohamad G. Fakih, Karen Jones, Mina El-Kateb, Katherine Reyes, Raymond Hilu, Louis D. Saravolatz, Takiah Williams, and Elango Edhayan

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Infectious Diseases, Oncology, business.industry, Internal medicine, Medicine, Urine, business
Published
2015
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4. How Good Are Medical and Surgical Residents at Addressing Urinary Catheter Risk? A Survey of 2 Large Teaching Hospitals

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Louis D. Saravolatz, Katherine Reyes, Marcus J. Zervos, Karen Jones, Steven Minnick, Elango Edhayan, Susan Szpunar, Mohamad G. Fakih, Takiah Williams, Raymond Hilu, Ana C. Bardossy, and Mina El-Kateb

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, Infectious Diseases, Oncology, business.industry, General surgery, medicine, business, Urinary catheter, Surgery
Published
2015
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