An electronic catheter-associated urinary tract infection surveillance tool

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 757-762

  Choudhuri, Julie A ^a   Pergamit, Ronald F ^a   Chan, Jeannie D ^a   Schreuder, Astrid B ^a   Mcnamara, Elizabeth ^a   Lynch, John B ^a   Dellit, Timothy H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BALLOON CATHETER; CATHETER INFECTION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE TOOL; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; URBAN AREA; URINALYSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CATHETER-RELATED INFECTIONS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; WASHINGTON; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960733768     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/661103     Document Type: Article

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