Examining the impact of a 9-component bundle and the INICC multidimensional approach on catheter-associated urinary tract infection rates in 32 countries across Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
Victor D RosenthalRuijie YinZhilin JinValentina PerezMatthew A KisSafaa Abdulaziz-AlkhawajaSandra L Valderrama-BeltranKatherine GomezClaudia M H RodasAmal El-SisiSuneeta SahuMohit KharbandaCamilla RodriguesSheila N MyatraRajesh ChawlaKavita SandhuYatin MehtaPrasad RajhansRajalakshmi ArjunChian-Wern TaiArpita BhaktaMohd-Basri Mat NorGuadalupe Aguirre-AvalosAlejandro Sassoe-GonzalezIder Bat-ErdeneSubhash P AcharyaDaisy Aguilar-de-MorosNilton Yhuri CarreazoWieslawa DuszynskaSona HlinkovaDincer YildizdasEsra K KılıcOguz DursunCaglar OdekSuna S O DenizErtugrul GucluIftihar KoksalEduardo A MedeirosMichael M PetrovLili TaoEstuardo SalgadoLourdes DueñasMohammad A DaboorLul RakaAbeer A OmarAamer IkramGeorge Horhat-FlorinZiad A MemishEric C BrownPublished in: American journal of infection control (2024)
Our intervention, without substantial costs or additional staffing, achieved an 89% reduction in CAUTI incidence in ICUs across 32 countries, demonstrating feasibility in ICUs of low- and middle-income countries.