Incidence and risk factors for catheter-associated urinary tract infection in 623 intensive care units throughout 37 Asian, African, Eastern European, Latin American, and Middle Eastern nations: A multinational prospective research of INICC.
Víctor Daniel RosenthalRuijie YinEric Christopher BrownBrandon Hochahn LeeCamilla RodriguesSheila Nainan MyatraMohit KharbandaPrasad RajhansYatin MehtaSubhash Kumar TodiSushmita BasuSuneeta SahuShakti Bedanta MishraRajesh ChawlaPravin K NairRajalakshmi ArjunDeepak SinglaKavita SandhuVijayanand PalaniswamyArpita BhaktaMohammed Basri Mat-NorChian Wern TaiIder Bat-ErdeneSubhash P AcharyaAamer IkramNellie TumuLili TaoGustavo Andres AlvarezSandra Liliana Valderrama-BeltranLuisa Fernanda Jiménez-AlvarezClaudia Milena Henao-RodasKatherine GomezLina Alejandra Aguilar-MorenoYuliana Andrea Cano MedinaMaria Adelia Zuniga-ChavarriaGuadalupe Aguirre-AvalosAlejandro Sassoe-GonzalezMary Cruz Aleman-BocanegraBlanca Estela Hernandez-ChenaMaria Isabel Villegas-MotaDaisy Aguilar De MorosAlex Castañeda-SabogalEduardo Alexandrino Servolo MedeirosLourdes DueñasNilton Yhuri CarreazoEstuardo SalgadoSafaa Abdulaziz AlkhawajaHala Mounir AghaAmani Ali El-KholyMohammad Abdellatif DaboorErtugrul GucluOğuz Dursunİftihar KöksalÇağdaş BaranSuna Seçil Öztürk-DenizDincer YildizdasEmel OkuluAbeer Aly OmarZiad A MemishJarosław JancSona HlinkovaWieslawa DuszynskaGeorge Horhat-FlorinLul RakaMichael M PetrovZhilin JinPublished in: Infection control and hospital epidemiology (2024)
CAUTI rates are higher in patients with suprapubic catheters, in middle-income countries, in public hospitals, in trauma and neurologic ICUs, and in Eastern European and Asian facilities.Based on findings regarding risk factors for CAUTI, focus on reducing LOS and UC utilization is warranted, as well as implementing evidence-based CAUTI-prevention recommendations.