作者: Colette Gnade , Chaorong Wu , Patrick Ten Eyck , Laurie Leder , Douglas Storm
DOI: 10.1016/J.UROLOGY.2020.02.028
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摘要: Objective To understand if an electronic medical record embedded best practice alert decreased our hospital's Catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) and catheter utilization (CU) rates. Methods Data from inpatient prospective CAUTI database, spanning 2011 to 2016, were utilized for analysis with the Best Practice Alert (BPA) starting in 2013. Using generalized linear models we compared CU rates between pre- post-BPA periods different patient subpopulations. Results We identified no decrease rate effect on as a result of BPA. However, there was increase adult intensive care unit (ICU) population 0.2 1.8 CAUTIs per 1,000 days (P Conclusion are exceedingly low, or without use Such appears have limited success lowering populations where is already low may not always lead improvement be some that more prone development secondary possible intrinsic co-morbid conditions.