Letteratura scientifica

Schweiger A, Kuster SP, Maag J, Zullig S, Bertschy S, Bortolin E, John G, Sax H, Limacher A, Atkinson A et al: Impact of an evidence-based intervention on urinary catheter utilization, associated process indicators, and infectious and non-infectious outcomes. J Hosp Infect 2020, 106(2):364-371.

Meddings J, Saint S, Fowler KE, Gaies E, Hickner A, Krein SL, Bernstein SJ: The Ann Arbor Criteria for Appropriate Urinary Catheter Use in Hospitalized Medical Patients: Results Obtained by Using the RAND/UCLA Appropriateness Method. Annals of internal medicine 2015, 162(9 Suppl):S1-34.

Magill SS, Edwards JR, Bamberg W, Beldavs ZG, Dumyati G, Kainer MA, Lynfield R, Maloney M, McAllister-Hollod L, Nadle J et al: Multistate point-prevalence survey of health care-associated infections. The New England journal of medicine 2014, 370(13):1198-1208.

Lo E, Nicolle LE, Coffin SE, Gould C, Maragakis LL, Meddings J, Pegues DA, Pettis AM, Saint S, Yokoe DS: Strategies to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections in acute care hospitals: 2014 update. Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2014, 35(5):464-479.

Nicolle LE: Catheter associated urinary tract infections. Antimicrobial resistance and infection control 2014, 3:23.

Hollingsworth JM, Rogers MA, Krein SL, Hickner A, Kuhn L, Cheng A, Chang R, Saint S: Determining the noninfectious complications of indwelling urethral catheters: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Annals of internal medicine 2013, 159(6):401-410.

Zarb P, Coignard B, Griskeviciene J, Muller A, Vankerckhoven V, Weist K, Goossens M, Vaerenberg S, Hopkins S, Catry B et al: The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) pilot point prevalence survey of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use. Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 2012, 17(46).

Chant C, Smith OM, Marshall JC, Friedrich JO: Relationship of catheter-associated urinary tract infection to mortality and length of stay in critically ill patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies. Critical care medicine 2011, 39(5):1167-1173.

Aaronson DS, Wu AK, Blaschko SD, McAninch JW, Garcia M: National incidence and impact of noninfectious urethral catheter related complications on the Surgical Care Improvement Project. The Journal of urology 2011, 185(5):1756-1760.

Weber DJ, Sickbert-Bennett EE, Gould CV, Brown VM, Huslage K, Rutala WA: Incidence of catheter-associated and non-catheter-associated urinary tract infections in a healthcare system. Infection control and hospital epidemiology 2011, 32(8):822-823.

Thomas AZ, Giri SK, Meagher D, Creagh T: Avoidable iatrogenic complications of urethral catheterization and inadequate intern training in a tertiary-care teaching hospital. BJU international 2009, 104(8):1109-1112.

Kashefi C, Messer K, Barden R, Sexton C, Parsons JK: Incidence and prevention of iatrogenic urethral injuries. The Journal of urology 2008, 179(6):2254-2257; discussion 2257-2258.

Yoon HJ, Choi JY, Park YS, Kim CO, Kim JM, Yong DE, Lee KW, Song YG: Outbreaks of Serratia marcescens bacteriuria in a neurosurgical intensive care unit of a tertiary care teaching hospital: a clinical, epidemiologic, and laboratory perspective. American journal of infection control 2005, 33(10):595-601.

Lorente L, Huidobro MS, Martin MM, Jimenez A, Mora ML: Accidental catheter removal in critically ill patients: a prospective and observational study. Critical care (London, England) 2004, 8(4):R229-233.

Saint S, Chenoweth CE: Biofilms and catheter-associated urinary tract infections. Infectious disease clinics of North America 2003, 17(2):411-432.

Schaberg DR, Weinstein RA, Stamm WE: Epidemics of nosocomial urinary tract infection caused by multiply resistant gram-negative bacilli: epidemiology and control. The Journal of infectious diseases 1976, 133(3):363-366.