Analysing risk factors for urinary tract infection based on automated monitoring of hospital acquired infection.
Urinary tract infections account for as much as one third of all nosocomial infections. The aim of this study was to examine previously reported characteristics of patients with hospital acquired urinary tract infections (HA UTI) using an automated infection monitoring system (Hospital Acquired Infection Registry: HAIR) A matched case control study was conducted to investigate the association of risk factors with HA UTI. Patients with HA UTI more frequently had indwelling urinary catheters or a disease in the genitourinary or nervous system than the controls. Automated hospital acquired infection monitoring enables documentation of key risk factors to better evaluate infection control interventions in general or for selected groups of patients.
The Journal of hospital infection