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A Multivariate Analysis of Risk Factors for Acquiring Bacteriuria in Patients With Indwelling Urinary Catheters for Longer Than 24 Hours

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Mervyn Shapiro ,
Elisheva Simchen ,
Shai Izraeli  and
Theodore G. Sacks
Mervyn Shapiro*
Affiliation:
Departments of Clinical Microbiology and Social Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, andHebrew University—Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
Elisheva Simchen
Affiliation:
Departments of Clinical Microbiology and Social Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, andHebrew University—Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
Shai Izraeli
Affiliation:
Departments of Clinical Microbiology and Social Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, andHebrew University—Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
Theodore G. Sacks
Affiliation:
Departments of Clinical Microbiology and Social Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, andHebrew University—Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
*
Department of Clinical Microbiology, Hadassah University Hospital, P.O.B. 12 000, Jerusalem, Israel
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Abstract

Data related to risk factors for catheter-acquired bacteriuria were collected prospectively on 112 patients consecutively catheterized for >24 hours at the Hadassah University Hospital. Logistic regression analysis indicated that factors independently associated (p≤0.05) with a higher risk of catheter-acquired bacteriuria were as follows: hospitalization in orthopedics or urology, ethnic origin (Arabs > Jews), insertion of a catheter after the sixth day of hospitalization, catheterization outside the operating theaters, lack of administration of systemic antibiotics, unsatisfactory catheter care, and prolonged duration (≥7 days) of catheterization before infection occurred. The risk associated with catheterization outside the operating theater could be explained by its correlate, that is, catheterization for incontinence/obstruction as opposed to output measurement. Life-table analyses demonstrated that the daily risk for acquiring bacteriuria during the first six days of catheterization was higher among patients ultimately catheterized for ≥7 days than among those ultimately catheterized for < 7 days (P<0.05).

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 5 , Issue 11 , November 1984 , pp. 525 - 532
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1984

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