Researchers from University of Connecticut Describe Findings in Pneumonia (National trends in the frequency of bladder catheterization and…

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Researchers from University of Connecticut Describe Findings in Pneumonia (National trends in the frequency of bladder catheterization and physician-diagnosed catheter-associated urinary tract infections: Results from the Medicare Patient ...)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Weekly News -- A new study on Lung Diseases and Conditions - Pneumonia is now available. According to news reporting from Farmington, Connecticut, by VerticalNews journalists, research stated, "It is unclear if bladder catheterization and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) rates have changed since the implementation of public reporting in 2011. We analyzed data from the Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System, a national, chart abstraction-based surveillance system, for hospitalized adults with a principal discharge diagnosis of heart failure (HF), acute myocardial infarction (AMI), or pneumonia and patients who had undergone certain major surgeries."

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from the University of Connecticut, "We assessed bladder catheterization frequency (percentage of patients catheterized) and risk-adjusted CAUTI frequency (percentage of catheterized patients developing CAUTI) from 2009-2014. Bladder catheterization frequency declined significantly (6.6% for AMI patients, 8.0% for HF patients, and 5.7% for surgical patients). For pneumonia patients, there was a nonsignificant increase of 1.1%. The risk-adjusted CAUTI rate among AMI patients decreased by 9.7% each year relative to the year before. For surgical patients, the decrease was 9.1% per year. There was no significant decline among HF or pneumonia patients. The overall burden of CAUTI among surgical patientswas higher than for the other conditions because surgical patients were more likely to be catheterized."

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: "There were statistically significant declines in observed bladder catheterization frequency and adjusted CAUTI frequency in some patient populations between 2009 and 2014."

For more information on this research see: National trends in the frequency of bladder catheterization and physician-diagnosed catheter-associated urinary tract infections: Results from the Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System. American Journal of Infection Control, 2017;45(8):901-904. American Journal of Infection Control can be contacted at: Mosby-Elsevier, 360 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10010-1710, USA.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting M.L. Metersky, University of Connecticut, Sch Med, Div Pulm Crit Care & Sleep Med, Farmington, CT, United States. Additional authors for this research include N. Eldridge, Y. Wang, E.M. Mortensen and J. Meddings.

Keywords for this news article include: Farmington, Connecticut, United States, North and Central America, Respiratory Tract Diseases and Conditions, Lung Diseases and Conditions, Respiratory Tract Infections, Acute Myocardial Infarction, Medicare, Epidemiology, Infectious Disease, Catheterization, Health Policy, Heart Failure, Urinary Tract, Pulmonology, Pneumonia, University of Connecticut.