作者: Nicholas Castle , John B. Engberg , Laura M. Wagner , Steven Handler
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摘要: Objective: This research examined resident and facility-specific factors associated with a diagnosis of urinary tract infection (UTI) in the nursing home setting. Method: Minimum Data Set Online Survey, Certification Reporting system data were used to identify all residents United States on April 1, 2006, who did not have UTI (n = 1,138,418). Residents followed until they contracted (9.5%), died (8.3%), left (33.2%), or year ended (49.0%). A Cox proportional hazards model was estimated, controlling for facility characteristics state residence. Result: The presence an indwelling catheter primary predictor whether (adjusted incidence ratio 3.35, p < .001), but only 6.1% sample had such catheter. Therefore, one eighth UTIs by Thus, subsequent analysis populations without ca...